Brisben v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certificate from the court at Nisi Prius: No. 246, to January Term 1868. This was an action on the case by Theodore M. Wilson, James Seddon and William M. Brisben, to the use of Edward. R. Worrell, receiver, against Charles H. Wilson, commenced January 4th 1868. The declaration contained five counts, only one of which was insisted on.
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Certificate from the court at Nisi Prius: No. 246, to January Term 1868. This was an action on the case by Theodore M. Wilson, James Seddon and William M. Brisben, to the use of Edward. R. Worrell, receiver, against Charles H. Wilson, commenced January 4th 1868. The declaration contained five counts, only one of which was insisted on. It was in trover for a quantity of goods belonging to the plaintiffs, which the defendant had distrained and sold for rent; the plaintiffs alleged that the distress was illegal. The facts in the case were these. On the 1st of August 1866, the defendant leased to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
Sharswood, J.
The 1st and 4th assignments of error have not been pressed upon the argument, nor indeed could they be with any show of reason or authority. The judge was clearly right in his answers to the plaintiffs’ 1st and 4th points complained of in these assignments, nor need we occupy time and space in vindicating them.
The 2d and 3d assignments do show, as we think, an error to have been committed in the answers to the plaintiffs’ 2d and 3d points; a very natural error from the hasty reading of McKinney v. Reader, 6 Watts 49, which is all that can…
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