Hannum v. Pownall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 435, Jan. T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 97, on verdict for plaintiffs. Sheriff’s interpleader to determine the ownership of growing crops levied upon in the apparent possession of Reese Eavenson, some of which was claimed by his wife, Hannah W. Eavenson, and other portions by the other plaintiffs, but all the assignments of error relate to the crops claimed by the wife.
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Appeal, No. 435, Jan. T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 97, on verdict for plaintiffs. Sheriff’s interpleader to determine the ownership of growing crops levied upon in the apparent possession of Reese Eavenson, some of which was claimed by his wife, Hannah W. Eavenson, and other portions by the other plaintiffs, but all the assignments of error relate to the crops claimed by the wife. Before Livingston, P. J. At the trial Mrs. Eavenson, to sustain her claim, produced in evidence a deed to herself of the farm upon which the crops were growing.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This case was so well tried in the court below that but a single complaint is made against the rulings made by the learned judge at the trial. The action was in form an issue framed under the sheriff’s interpleader act. The property seized by the sheriff consisted of farm crops grown upon a farm in the possession of the defendant in the execution. Hannah W. Eavenson ivas his wife and claimed the crops as her own. She rested her claim of title to the crops upon the fact that the title to the farm on which they were grown was in her. The defendant alleged that her…
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