Dolan v. Briggs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Ereor. Upon a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, it appeared that Briggs, the plaintiff below, brought the present action to June term 1808, and declared in trover for a mainsail, and other sails of the schooner Indiana; laying the conversion by Dolan on the 1st of April 1808. Plea the general issue.
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In Ereor. Upon a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, it appeared that Briggs, the plaintiff below, brought the present action to June term 1808, and declared in trover for a mainsail, and other sails of the schooner Indiana; laying the conversion by Dolan on the 1st of April 1808. Plea the general issue. The defendant gave in evidence a decree of the District Court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, condemning the said schooner for the payment of mariners’ wages, and ordering the sale of her, “ together with all and singular her tackle, apparel and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilqhman O. J.
This cause comes before us on a bill of exceptions to the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas. *455Briggs the plaintiff below, brought an action of trover *against Dolan the defendant, for certain sails which once belonged to the schooner Indiana, who together with her tackle, &c., was sold by order of the District Court of the United States, on a libel for seamen’s wages. The defendant claimed under the marshal’s sale, and the plaintiff offered to prove that the sails in question were expressly excepted, when the schooner was sold, to which the defendant objected, on the ground…
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