Rutherford v. Maynes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1881, No. 132. This was an action of replevin by Charles Maynes, who was tenant under Elizabeth L. Devine, against William Rutherford, treasurer of the Greenwich Island Meadow Company and James J. Keating, for certain goods and chattels distrained upon by the Greenwich Island Meadow Company for assessments levied upon the land of the said Elizabeth L. Devine, which were overdue and unpaid.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1881, No. 132. This was an action of replevin by Charles Maynes, who was tenant under Elizabeth L. Devine, against William Rutherford, treasurer of the Greenwich Island Meadow Company and James J. Keating, for certain goods and chattels distrained upon by the Greenwich Island Meadow Company for assessments levied upon the land of the said Elizabeth L. Devine, which were overdue and unpaid. The said Greenwich Island Meadow Company avowed, and James J. Keating made cognisance, as bailiff, for taxes in arrear. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Greenwich Island, described in the preamble of the Act of 1760, as marsh, meadow and cripple land, partly drained and partly open to the overflowing of the tide, is the territory required by said act to be embanked and drained for the common benefit of the owners. That it is divided into a number of farms, with several owners; that the lands would be almost, if not altogether unfit for cultivation without embankment and drainage; that the statute provides a just mode for making the general improvements and keeping up the same, and for levying the costs thereof as between the .owners, are…
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