McCrossan v. Reilly

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 628
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 354

Syllabus

<p>Bailment — Rental—Landlord’s warrant — Contract.</p> <p>Installments reserved in a bailment contract for personal property furnish no ground for the issue of a landlord’s warrant, unless expressly so provided in the contract.</p> <p>Landlord and tenant — Fraudulent removal of goods — Distress.</p> <p>An open removal of the tenant’s goods from the demised premises in the daytime, in order to secure them from distress for rent, is not a clandestine, or fraudulent removal, and, without more, it is not sufficient to justify the landlord in following them, and distraining within thirty days.</p> <p>Bailment — Seizure of goods — Damages—Right of bailee.</p> <p>Where goods have been illegally taken from a bailee in possession, the latter has a right to recover as against the wrongdoer, the market value of the goods, and the bailee will then be liable over to the bailor for such interest as he may have in the goods.</p>