Perlman & Co. v. Sartorius & Co.

Citations

• 162 Pa. 320
• 29 A. 852
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 982

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Sale—Place of sale.</p> <p>If no place be designated by the contract, the place of sale is the point at which goods ordered or purchased are set apart and delivered to the purchaser, or to a common carrier who for the purpose of delivery represents him.</p> <p>Lex loci contractus — Fraudulent insolvency — Sale—Title.</p> <p>A resident of Maryland, being in Pennsylvania, sold goods then in Maryland to a resident of Pennsylvania. Subsequently the terms of sale were modified by letters written from their respective states. Held, that the contract was a Maryland contract and was governed by the law of that state and a sale to one who knows himself to be insolvent passes no title.</p> <p>Fvidence — Declarations of defendant in execution.</p> <p>In order to prove that a purchaser knew that he was insolvent when he made a purchase, declarations as to his prior insolvency made by him after his goods were levied upon, are admissible.</p>