Edmunds & Blackford v. Hobbie Piano Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Boanoke- city, rendered December 20, 1898, in a proceeding to test the title to certain personal property, in which proceeding the plaintiffs in error were, in effect, the plaintiffs, and the defendants in error were the defendants. The plaintiffs in error sued out a writ of fieri facias 'against the Hobbie Piano Company which was levied on certain personal property found in its possession.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Boanoke- city, rendered December 20, 1898, in a proceeding to test the title to certain personal property, in which proceeding the plaintiffs in error were, in effect, the plaintiffs, and the defendants in error were the defendants. The plaintiffs in error sued out a writ of fieri facias 'against the Hobbie Piano Company which was levied on certain personal property found in its possession. This property was claimed by various persons. Ho indemnifying bond having been given, the sergeant of the city of Roanoke, who had levied the fieri facias, filed…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The question involved in this case is whether the property levied on by the sergeant of the city of Roanoke to satisfy the plaintiff’s fieri facias against the Hobbie Piano Company was liable therefor.
The Piano Company was a corporation engaged in buying and selling musical instruments under a general merchant’s license. The property levied on was not owned by the Piano Company, but belonged to other parties. The plaintiffs claim the right to subject it to the payment of their execution under the provision of section 2877 of the Code, which is as follows:
“ If any person transact business as a…
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