Dieffenderfer v. Fisher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union County. Trespass against a constable for refusing to appraise property under the act of 1849. The opinion of the court containing a full statement of the facts was delivered October 20th, 1859, by
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
A young man, unmarried and without family, owing a debt of $24 24, compels his creditor to obtain judgment, to take execution and to levy on a colt which tjie debtor protested with profane emphasis belonged to his father, and not himself.
For near a week that the sale was advertised, no" appraisement was demanded under the exemption law of 1849, though the debtor and the constable dwelt in the same little village about one hundred yards apart, but on the day of the sale, within half an hour of its commencement, according to some witnesses, and after the bidding had actually begun, according to…
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