Vallance v. Miners' Life Insurance & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an action of trover by The Miners’ Life Insurance and Trust Company against John K. Vallance, Jesse Knuler, and Henry B. Fairman, in which plaintiff declared for thirty drift cars, forty-two slope wagons, eight dirt cars, and four trucks; to which the defendants pleaded not guilty and “property.” There was a verdict and judgment .in the court below in favour of the plaintiffs.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an action of trover by The Miners’ Life Insurance and Trust Company against John K. Vallance, Jesse Knuler, and Henry B. Fairman, in which plaintiff declared for thirty drift cars, forty-two slope wagons, eight dirt cars, and four trucks; to which the defendants pleaded not guilty and “property.” There was a verdict and judgment .in the court below in favour of the plaintiffs. Whereupon the defendants purchased this writ, and assigned for error the charge of the court below on the points submitted by the counsel for the parties. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, April 21st 1862, by
Strong, J.
This was an action of trover. The title of the plaintiffs below was founded upon a sheriff’s sale, made to them on the 23d.day of July 1858, of all the right, title, and interest of R. H. T. Horton in the property in dispute. The defendants claimed under a written transfer made by Horton to Henry Heil & Co., on the 25th of May 1858. There were two instruments bearing date on that day. By the first, Horton, in consideration of his indebtedness to H. Heil & Co., and to Henry Heil, transferred to Henry Heil all his interest in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Englebert v. BlanjotSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Penn Plate Glass Co. v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
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