Kilgore v. Smith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR, TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS OF YORK COUNTY. No. 422 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 18 April Term 1885, C. P. On April 10, 1885, an action of replevin was instituted by Robert Tynes Smith and William Wicks, trading as Smith & Wicks, against Samuel Kilgore, Samuel Kilgore & Co. and the Harford Transportation Co., for 1,103 cases of canned tomatoes and 900 cases of canned corn, of the value of 13,004.50. The return to the writ showed that Samuel Kilgore,…
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ERROR, TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS OF YORK COUNTY. No. 422 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 18 April Term 1885, C. P. On April 10, 1885, an action of replevin was instituted by Robert Tynes Smith and William Wicks, trading as Smith & Wicks, against Samuel Kilgore, Samuel Kilgore & Co. and the Harford Transportation Co., for 1,103 cases of canned tomatoes and 900 cases of canned corn, of the value of 13,004.50. The return to the writ showed that Samuel Kilgore, on behalf of Samuel Kilgore & Co., claimed title to the goods and filed a bond duly executed; as to the Harford…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Paxson :
This was an action -of replevin brought in the court below by the firm of Smith & Wicks against the defendants for 1103 cases of canned tomatoes and 900 cases of canned corn, of the value of $3,004.50. The plaintiffs claimed title through the Northern Harford Packing Association, a corporation chartered by the state of Maryland, for the manufacture and sale of canned goods. The defendants claimed, and it was the principal ground of their defence, that the title of the plaintiffs derived from the said company was defective for the reason that said company was a…
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