Livingston v. Bell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL from the circuit court of Mleghany county, held in November 1833, before Justice Ross. The appellant, Thomas Livingston, assignee of Samuel Stevenson, instituted an action of trover against William Bell, Jun., John Alexander and Thomas Stevenson the appellees, to recover certain bonds, notes, book accounts and merchandize of the value of 50,000 dollars.
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APPEAL from the circuit court of Mleghany county, held in November 1833, before Justice Ross. The appellant, Thomas Livingston, assignee of Samuel Stevenson, instituted an action of trover against William Bell, Jun., John Alexander and Thomas Stevenson the appellees, to recover certain bonds, notes, book accounts and merchandize of the value of 50,000 dollars. The plaintiff claimed the property by virtue of an assignment made to him by Samuel Stevenson under and conformably to the insolvent laws, and dated the 24th of November 1832. The defendants claimed under the following voluntary deed of…
1Per curiam
Though it would have been better had these conditional assignments been brought within the purview of the 13 Eliz., as they might have been originally, and, in fact, have been in some of our sister states; it is too late to do so now. They have occurred in countless numbers, and have been sustained when brought before the courts; so that the title to an imnlense amount of property, perhaps to the value of millions, depends on them; and we should introduce a scene of the wildest confusion, perhaps of mercantile ruin, were we to disturb it. We are required by the argument, in effect, to…
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