Fry v. Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. . " Replevin by John G. Fry against John Jones and Jim,os Straw, constable of Augusta township.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. . " Replevin by John G. Fry against John Jones and Jim,os Straw, constable of Augusta township. The defendants avowed for rent in arrear, to which the plaintiff replied, no rent in arrear, and afterwards added the plea o.f non demisit. ' , On.the trial it appeared, that John Jones had demised to John G. Fry a grist mill, and á house, and lot of ground, for the term of one year, reserving as rent ‘‘ one-third of the toll which the mill grinds,” for which Jones, the landlord, had, by a warrant directed to Straw, the constable,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
— The landlord’s warrant states a lease of a grist mill, a housé, and lot, in Augusta township, Northumberland, county* for .the term of on'e year, commencing on the 1st of April, 1825, for the one-third of the toll which the mill grinds, and avers, that one hundred and sixty, and. a half bushels of different kinds of grain, of the value of seventy-six dollars and eighty-five cents, still remain due and unpaid; and, this- appears to have been the contract bn which the distress was made. The plaintiff in replevin denies the right tó distráin…
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