Steelwagon v. Jeffries & Wife
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was a feigned issue under the Sheriff’s Interpleader Act, in which Robert N. Jeffries and Emily his wife, in right of said Emily, were plaintiffs, and Joseph Steel wagon, defendant. Steelwagon held a judgment against Robert N. Jeffries, on which he sued out an execution, and levied on certain goods and chattels in a dwelling-house on the corner of Broad and Berks streets, then occupied by Jeffries with his family.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was a feigned issue under the Sheriff’s Interpleader Act, in which Robert N. Jeffries and Emily his wife, in right of said Emily, were plaintiffs, and Joseph Steel wagon, defendant. Steelwagon held a judgment against Robert N. Jeffries, on which he sued out an execution, and levied on certain goods and chattels in a dwelling-house on the corner of Broad and Berks streets, then occupied by Jeffries with his family. The articles levied on being claimed by Mrs. Jeffries, a feigned issue was directed, as above stated, to try her title thereto. On…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
If the plaintiff in error is entitled to a reversal of the judgment of the court below, it is because the court erred in finding, or inferring from the testimony given and demurred to by the defendant, that there was not only a sale of the property by Jeffries to Chew, but an actual delivery and change of the possession.
The transfer of the household furniture by Jeffries to his father-in-law, rested alone in the bill of sale. No actual delivery ever took place. True, the door-plate of the house, having on it Jeffries’ name, was taken down,…
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