Adams v. Lee

The fundamental error of the court in this case was in treating the machinery in question as having been fixtures annexed to the freehold. A brief recital of the facts in the case will show that such could not have “been their legal character.

*441The real estate in question was owned by John H. Kaufman May 29, 1867. Before that time, under some arrangement not shown, and not now important, a building had been erected upon this real estate, and machinery for the manufacture of wool had been put into the same, which was owned by Augustus E. Hardy. The machinery appears to have been annexed to the…