M. H. Pickering Co. v. Lichtenstein
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 39, April T., 1916, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 142, on verdict for defendants in case of M. H. Pickering Company v. Mamie Lichenstein, Executrix of H. Lichtenstein, deceased, and Jacob Altman, et al. Replevin for goods leased. Before Carnahan, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 39, April T., 1916, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 142, on verdict for defendants in case of M. H. Pickering Company v. Mamie Lichenstein, Executrix of H. Lichtenstein, deceased, and Jacob Altman, et al. Replevin for goods leased. Before Carnahan, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was refusal to enter judgment for plaintiff n. o. v.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
M. H. Pickering & Company, the appellant, replevied certain goods which they had leased to Taggart. The landlord of the latter had, prior to levy by the sheriff, made a distraint for rent in arrear.
The only questions presented are, first, was the warrant of distress in proper form and second, was it proper for the person executing the warrant to levy on Pickering’s goods?
First: The lease was made by the Aronson Realty Co., Inc., Agent for H. & J. Lichtenstein. The landlord’s warrant was not produced at the trial of .the case but there was testimony that it was signed by…
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