Fitler v. Morris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action on the case brought by William H. Morris against Daniel Fitler, Esq., sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, and Robert Miller. The plaintiff declared in trover for certain shoes, hats, and other merchandise, of the value of $500. The defendants pleaded not guilty; upon which issue the cause came on for trial before Stroud, J., on the 5th of November.
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Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action on the case brought by William H. Morris against Daniel Fitler, Esq., sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, and Robert Miller. The plaintiff declared in trover for certain shoes, hats, and other merchandise, of the value of $500. The defendants pleaded not guilty; upon which issue the cause came on for trial before Stroud, J., on the 5th of November. The plaintiff gave in evidence a writ of foreign attachment issued out of the District Court to June term, 1839, directed to the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
In this case we have two bills of exception to testi- - mony offered and admitted by the court. But in the errors assigned, and some part of the discussion here, errors were alleged and discussed, without any thing before us to show whether any such existed. The whole doctrine of what amounts to a sale of goods, and vests the right in the purchaser; how far the vendor may follow the goods where there has been fraud used by the buyer, either in misrepresentations at the contract, or where the goods had reached the buyer’s residence, and he…
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