Babb v. Clemson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, and bills of exceptions to the admission of evidence, and to the opinion of the court in their charge to the jury, in this suit brought by Elizabeth Clemson, plaintiff below and defendant in error, against Sampson Babb, sheriff, of Chester county, plaintiff in error, the following appeared to be the case.
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On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, and bills of exceptions to the admission of evidence, and to the opinion of the court in their charge to the jury, in this suit brought by Elizabeth Clemson, plaintiff below and defendant in error, against Sampson Babb, sheriff, of Chester county, plaintiff in error, the following appeared to be the case. This suit was brought to recover the value of certain property, mostly stock on a farm, with some few articles of household furniture, levied on by the defendant, on the 15th January, 1822, and sold under an execution issued…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J
This question respects the validity of a sale oí certain goods by Benjamin Pusey to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Clemson, plaintiff below, defendant in error, who claims them against a levy made by the plaintiff in error, the sheriff of Chester' county on an execution of Joseph Boyd, against Benjamin Puseip *424subsequent to the date of the sale, but on a judgment previously obtained. After a judgment has been obtained, a conveyance by the defendant of his- goods and chattels, has always been looked on as wearing a deep complexion of fraud, and as…
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