Levy v. Wallis

4 U.S. 167 (____)

4 Dall. 167

Levy

versus

Wallis.

Supreme Court of United States.

The COURT declared, that it had been repeatedly determined, and was become the settled law of Pennsylvania, that the act of suffering goods to remain in the hands of the defendant, after they were levied upon, furnished no presumption of fraud here, as it did in England; and that this departure from the English rule arose from sentiments of humanity, and the peculiar necessities of the country. In the interior of the state, particularly, it was the universal practice not to remove the goods after a levy. If, however,…