Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. v. Heil
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county: Of July Term 1886, No. 119. Troyerby the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company against Walter Heil and Maria Heil. Plea, not guilty. The following are the facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Albright, P. J.: Maria Heil was a married woman, the wife of Walter Heil.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county: Of July Term 1886, No. 119. Troyerby the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company against Walter Heil and Maria Heil. Plea, not guilty. The following are the facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Albright, P. J.: Maria Heil was a married woman, the wife of Walter Heil. On May 24th, 1884, the plaintiff delivered to her a sewing machine upon the following terms and conditions, being the written contract between them. This agreement, made and entered into by and between Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, of the first…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
That the contract of 24th May, 1884, between the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company and Maria Heil, wife of Walter Heil, is, in terms, a bailment and not a sale of the sewing machine, we think cannot be doubted.
By the terms of the contract the company “rented” the sewing machine to Mrs. Heil for a definite period at a certain rent; she agreed to become the agent of the company in holding and keeping the possession of it, and not to remove it from *491the place where she then resided without the company’s consent; and, at the expiration of the term, or upon failure to pay the rent, on demand,…
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