Ferguson v. Lauterstein

Citations

• 160 Pa. 427
• 28 A. 852
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 824

Syllabus

<p>Replevin — Right of possession — Lease.</p> <p>In Pennsylvania, replevin lies wherever one man claims goods in the possession of another, and this whether the claimant has ever had possession or not and whether his property in the goods be absolute or qualified, provided he has the right of possession.</p> <p>Where furniture is let with a hotel to a tenant upon a bailment to use, with the privilege of buying the furniture upon paying a specified sum, and the tenant neither buys nor pays the rent, the owner has the right of possession, and may maintain replevin against one who has purchased the furniture at sheriff’s sale under a judgment against the tenant.</p>