Samuel v. Knight & Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 55, Oct. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass.
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Appeal, No. 55, Oct. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 36, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass. Before Willson, J. It appears from tbe record and evidence that this action of trespass was brought to recover damages for the conversion of two carloads of scrap iron; that plaintiff claimed title under a sheriff’s sale ; the defendants, under subsequent bill of sale made by the defendant in the execution, and the question at issue was whether or not the iron had been included in the sheriff’s levy and subsequent sale. The scrap iron in question…
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Oblady, J.,. The plaintiff issued an execution against the Ridley Iron Company, Limited, and the same day the deputy sheriff went to the office at the rolling mill of the defendant and received from the officers in charge a descriptive list of property which he entered in his levy book, as “ muck bar, coal, iron ore, charcoal, sand, clay, oil,” (which items are not in controversy in this *359issue) and also “about two carloads scrap iron” aud “all other goods under levy and subject to execution.”
At the sale which followed, the plaintiff became the purchaser of practically all of the…
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