Lowry v. Hall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Warren county. This was an action of replevin in the Common Pleas of Warren county for 900,000 feet of lumber, valued at f9000, which had come from the state of New York by the Conewango river, on its way to a market below.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Warren county. This was an action of replevin in the Common Pleas of Warren county for 900,000 feet of lumber, valued at f9000, which had come from the state of New York by the Conewango river, on its way to a market below. The defendants pleaded property in themselves, and gave in evidence the record of an earlier but pending replevin, issued out of the Supreme Court of New York at the suit of Lowry, one of the plaintiffs in error, against William Hall, one of the defendants in error, and two others, all the parties being inhabitants of New York; on which the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
The case of Johnson v. Hunt, (23 Wend. 87), so much relied on, does not touch the point before us. It rules no more than that an insolvent debtor’s voluntary assignment of personal property abroad, is not to be affected by process of attachment in the nature of a commission of bankruptcy which operates, as it must, only upon his property at home. The assignment in that case was not procured by coercion of the law of Pennsylvania, where the property happened to be at the time. The absconding debtor gave it to discharge a debt for which he…
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