Turner v Ford: 11 Feb 1846

The plaintiff lent a piano-forte to W, in whose hands it was seized under a distress for rent. While the lancllorcl’s bailiff remained iii possession by W.’s consent, a fieri facias against W, at the suit of another creditor, was put into the premises, and the officer seized the piano forte, and removed it to the premises of the defendant, an auctioneer, for sale : Held, that the plaintiff’ (after demarid arid refusal to deliver it) was entitled to recover it from the defendant in trover.

Citations:

[1846] EngR 407, (1846) 15 M and W 212, (1846) 153 ER 826

Links:

Commonlii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Torts – Other

Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.302302