Seeds v. Kahler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: No. 40, to May Term 1873. This was a sheriff’s interpleader, in which the issue was made up April 15th 1872, between Josephine Seeds, plaintiff and claimant, and August Kahler, defendant. Executions had been issued at the suit of Kahler against John E. Seeds, the husband of the claimant. The sheriff, under the executions, levied on certain personal property as belonging to the husband.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: No. 40, to May Term 1873. This was a sheriff’s interpleader, in which the issue was made up April 15th 1872, between Josephine Seeds, plaintiff and claimant, and August Kahler, defendant. Executions had been issued at the suit of Kahler against John E. Seeds, the husband of the claimant. The sheriff, under the executions, levied on certain personal property as belonging to the husband. It was claimed by the wife, and on that claim the inter-pleader issue was framed. On the 28th of February 1866, Hugh Seeds, the father of John E. Seeds,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
The plaintiff in error was the unquestioned owner of the farm on which she and her husband resided. She was engaged in its cultivation. The jury has found that she owned the stock, farming implements and crops, upon it. Her husband acted as her agent in overseeing the farm, and in conducting her business generally. He had been for many years, prior tO' the-purchase of the mare in question, and then was, notoriously insolvent. She had good pecuniary credit, he had none. The note given on the purchase of the mare of Keller, indicated upon its face, that her credit, not her husband’s, was…
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