Cooper v. Philadelphia Worsted Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal of Mary J. Lees et al. from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Reed, whose opinion is reported in ¡57 Atl. Rep. 7SS. This ease involves the ownership of machinery of the Philadelphia Worsted Company, an insolvent corporation of this state. The receiver makes no claim and submits himself to the judgment of the court.
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On appeal of Mary J. Lees et al. from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Reed, whose opinion is reported in ¡57 Atl. Rep. 7SS. This ease involves the ownership of machinery of the Philadelphia Worsted Company, an insolvent corporation of this state. The receiver makes no claim and submits himself to the judgment of the court. The controversy is between the executors of Daniel Lees, deceased, formerly of Lenni, Pennsylvania, and Harding, Whitman & Company, a copartnership, the members of which do not reside in the State of New Jersey. The machinery was formerly owned by Lees, at Lenni. On…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swatze, J.
The agreement in question, under Pennsylvania law, constituted a bailment, and the title of Lees was good in Pennsylvania. Stadtfeld v. Huntsman, 92 Pa. St. 53; Ditman v. Cottrell, 125 Pa. St. 606; 17 Atl. Rep. 504; Brown Brothers v. Billington, 163 Pa. St. 76; 29 Atl. Rep. 904; Lippincott v. Scott, 198 Pa. St. 283; 47 Atl. Rep. 1115; Marvin Safe Co. v. Norton, 48 N. J. Law (19 Vr.) 410.
For the purposes of this case, we may assume that the contract would here be construed as a contract for conditional sale, which, under the New Jersey…
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