Hickman v. Shimp
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county : Of July Term, 1883, No. 130. Replevin, by Henry E. Shimp against Wellington Hickman et al. to recover an engine and boiler.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county : Of July Term, 1883, No. 130. Replevin, by Henry E. Shimp against Wellington Hickman et al. to recover an engine and boiler. On the trial, before Futhey, P. J., the following facts appeared: S. G. Willauer was the owner of certain real estate in Chester county on which there was a deposit of kaolin, and in the latter part of the year 1879 he erected buildings and machinery on his property for the purpose of raising the said material. His engine and boiler proved too small, and in February, 1880, in a conversation had by Willauer with the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This action of replevin was brought on the 13th January, 1882, by Henry E. Shimp, to recover an engine and boiler in the defendants’ possession at Cedar Knoll, in Chester county. In the latter part of the year 1879 one S. G. Willauer was tíre owner of certain real property at the place named, containing a large deposit of kaolin, a variety of clay used in the manufacture of porcelain, and .had erected thereon buildings and machinery for the mining of that material. The engine and boiler in dispute were, in February, 1880, set up in these works by Shimp, under an arrangement with Willauer. As…
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