Richard v. Allen

Citations

• 117 Pa. 199
• 11 A. 552
• 1887 Pa. LEXIS 251

Syllabus

<p>1. As a partnership is a distinct entity and the joint effects belong to it and not to the several partners, levies upon partnership effects for the several debts of the individual members create no lien and are nugatory; the seizure is a trespass and legally void.</p> <p>2. A levy made under an execution against a partnership upon partnership property, though after a levy upon the same property upon executions against the several members, creates a valid lien, and a sale thereon vests the absolute ownership of the property in the vendee.</p> <p>5. Doner v. Stauffer, IP. & W. 198, followed.</p>