Waring v. Slingluff

The appellee replevied sundry marble monuments and tombstones, an iron safe, a horse and set of harness, appraised at $2390. The defendants, described as heirs of Louisa Torrance, avowed the taking of the property under a distress for rent. In the avowry, it is averred in substance, that one Jacob Weinman was tenant to the defendants of certain premises at a certain rent, which was in arrear to the amount of $139.50, and that the goods and chattels in question were on said premises, and were justly taken as a distress for the rent so in arrear. To this the plaintiff pleaded, 1st. that Weinman…