Hess v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 122. This was a feigned issue to try the right of property to certain goods and chattels which John Brown had caused to be levied on as. the property of C. Otto Hess, husband of Catharine Hess, who claimed them.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 122. This was a feigned issue to try the right of property to certain goods and chattels which John Brown had caused to be levied on as. the property of C. Otto Hess, husband of Catharine Hess, who claimed them. On the trial before Bailey, A. L. J., the following facts appeared : C. O. Hess, the husband of Catharine Hess, became financially embarrassed in August, 1875. F. X. Lang and Thomas McCoy levied upon two ice ponds, and ice houses, each having separate outfits, such as horses, harness…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
It is not denied that the - sheriff’s sale, which was made of the personal goods and estate of C. Otto Hess, in August, 1875, was a bona fide and valid sale. The levy was upon the lease of two ice ponds, ice houses, etc., each with an outfit for marketing the ice, consisting of horses, harness, wagons, etc. At the sale, the lease of Chartiers creek, with-a horse and wagon and some twelve hundred to fifteen hundred tons of ice, were purchased by Felix X. Lang, who transferred his purchase to George C. Hess, a brother of the execution debtor. The similar establishment and outfit, at East…
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