Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1853

Cadwalader v. Tindall

Cadwalader v. Tindall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided April 8, 1853
20 Pa. 422; 1853 Pa. LEXIS 54

Cadwalader v. Tindall

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Where a tenant of land receives the cattle of third persons to be pastured at hire, are they subject to a distress for rent ? Certainly not; else the law of distress would be a mere trap to catch other people’s property. Where, in the course of the tenant’s business, he receives the property of third persons as a means of making a livelihood, it .is not subject to distress.

Judgment affirmed.

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