Dart v. Woodhouse

The controversy in this cause grows out of an execution levy made by Dart on a set of manuscript abstract books which were at the time in the possession of William Woodhouse, the execution debtor, who had transferred them to Lemuel Woodhouse under a transfer which is claimed to have been invalid against creditors.

The counsel in the argument of this cause on both sides found difficulties, in the nature of the property, but did- not plainly present the radical difficulty that the right in unpublished manuscripts is neither goods nor chattels subject to execution. The right of the proprietor of…