Gibson v. Sutton ex rel. Sutton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Argued October 18, 1885, before Gordon, Trunkey, Sterrett, and Green, JJ. October Term, 1886, No. 130, W. D. Error to the Common Pleas of Butler County to review a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff in a feigned issue to try the title to personal property.
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Argued October 18, 1885, before Gordon, Trunkey, Sterrett, and Green, JJ. October Term, 1886, No. 130, W. D. Error to the Common Pleas of Butler County to review a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff in a feigned issue to try the title to personal property. February 11, 1886, the court awarded this issue, under a sheriff’s interpleader in which Nancy A. Sutton and her husband, Samuel Sutton, in the right of the wife, were plaintiffs, and A. C. Gibson was defendant, to try the title to certain chattels consisting of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, wagons, and other farm implements, levied upon by…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green :
The controversy in this case was over the title to certain personal property claimed by the plaintiff, a married woman, against a creditor of her husband who had seized it in execution as the husband’s property.
The property in question, or some of it, had formerly belonged to the husband, and had been sold at sheriff’s sale and purchased by his brother at a fair price, and paid for, and the money distributed among the husband’s creditors. The real estate of the husband, a farm of about 100 acres, had also been sold by the sheriff and purchased by the brother.
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