Legal Opinion

Clouser v. Patterson

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 1, 1888No. 22PublishedCited by 6 opinions

error to the court oe common pleas oe eulton COUNTY. No. 22 May Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 60 October Term 1887, C. P. On October 30, 1887, a feigned issue was awarded, wherein Jacob Clouser and Elizabeth Clouser, his wife, in right of said wife, were plaintiffs, and D. H. Patterson, G. W. Skinner and others, were defendants, to determine the ownership of property levied upon by the sheriff as the property of Jacob Clouser, at the suits of D. H. Patterson and…

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error to the court oe common pleas oe eulton COUNTY. No. 22 May Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 60 October Term 1887, C. P. On October 30, 1887, a feigned issue was awarded, wherein Jacob Clouser and Elizabeth Clouser, his wife, in right of said wife, were plaintiffs, and D. H. Patterson, G. W. Skinner and others, were defendants, to determine the ownership of property levied upon by the sheriff as the property of Jacob Clouser, at the suits of D. H. Patterson and others. Mrs. Elizabeth Clouser claimed the property in dispute, to wit, a gray mare, known as the Parker mare, a brindle…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion,

Me. Justice Williams :

The proceedings in this case were under a feigned issue to determine the title to the several articles of personal property levied on by the sheriff as the property of Jacob Clouser. The claimant was the wife of the defendant in the writs. She asserted a title in her own right to all the property levied on, which consisted of the following farm stock, viz., 20 sheep., 8 head of cattle, 3 horses and 8 hogs.

The testimony is not printed in the paper books, but the learned judge, before whom the case was tried, has incorporated some portions of it in his charge to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Watkins v. Workingmens' Building & Loan Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
  2. Keen v. HopkinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
  3. Beates v. RetallickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
  4. Roddy v. HarahSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1869

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Haller v. HallerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
  2. Interstate Creamery, Inc. v. ReinerthSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
  3. United State v. BachmanDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1917
  4. S. Austin Bicking Paper Manufacturing Co. v. WorrallSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
  5. Bausewine v. Strassburger, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1943

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