Jimison v. Reifsneider
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 115. Replevin, by J. P. Reifsneider against Powers & Weightman and James K. Jimison. The .sheriff returned nihil hahent as to Powers & Weightman. The narr. alleged the taking and detention of the plaintiff’s goods on the demised premises.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 115. Replevin, by J. P. Reifsneider against Powers & Weightman and James K. Jimison. The .sheriff returned nihil hahent as to Powers & Weightman. The narr. alleged the taking and detention of the plaintiff’s goods on the demised premises. The defendant Jimison filed his cognisance, acknowledging the taking by him, as bailiff of Powers & Weightman, of the plaintiff’s goods, on the demised premises, as a distress for rent then due and in arrears to Powers & Weightman by their tenants of the said premises,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This complaint is against the plaintiff in error, as bailiff of Powers & Weightman. As such he distrained, for the non-payment of rent, goods on the premises demised by them to Hall & Richardson. The warrant issued, and the distress was made on the 20th of April 1878.
That rent was then due and unpaid is found as a fact. That the goods of the defendant in error found thereon were liable to distress for the rent, cannot, under numerous authorities, be questioned: Karns v. McKinney, 24 P. F. Smith 387.
What, then, is the grievance of which the defendant in error complained, and which he sought to…
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- Quinn v. WallaceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
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