Brown v. Howell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

On demurrer to a plea intended to justify a conversion of goods, it appeared that Sarah D. Manning, at the time of her death in October, 1897, was tenant under the defendant of a store in Trenton; that five months’ rent became due on November 1st, 1897, and thereupon the defendant seized the goods in the store, which had belonged to the tenant, and sold them as a distress for the rent. Afterwards, in September^ 1899, the plaintiff was appointed administratrix of said Sarah’s estate and in that character brought the present suit.

The plaintiff…