Berg v. Langan

Newcomb, P. J.,

This is an action of replevin at the suit of the owner to test the question whether the goods and chattels described in the *160writ were subject to a lien for the rent of demised premises on which they had been distrained by the landlord.

The case being regularly on the list and called for trial, the facts were put upon record and the cause submitted by agreement of parties for trial without a jury.

For the sum of $90 rent owing by her tenant, one Costello, then in arrear, the defendant, Mrs. Langan, on May 13, 1929, distrained the goods in question. The legal title was in this…