The Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice; Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common Law, in Equity and in Criminal Cases Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...of the sheriff to take the undivided share of the debtor without reference to the partnership account, but that a court of equity would take the account and ascertain what the sheriff ought to sell. Me. 89, which case is cited in New. hall v. Buckingham, 14 111. 405. Maryland.---Upon this question, see ihe obittr dictum of Dorsey, J., in M'Elderry v. Flannagan, I Har. & G. (Md.) 30S. Michigan.--Hutchinson v. Dubois, 4; Mich. 143, it would seem is an authority against the right of the officer to take possession of the firm's property. Without expressly passing upon the question, the court says: " A levy cannot touch a specific proportion of the goods, nor the whole, because others have property in every part as well as the whole, cuupled with a right, resting in contract, to use them for the purposes for which the partnership was instituted." Citing Church v. Knox, 2 Conn. 514, and Sirrine v. Briggs, 31 Mich. 443, in which cases the precise point determined was that the sheriff could not levy upon specific articles, and that he should have levied upon the partner's interest in the whole stock; Tappan v. Blaisdell, 5 N. H. 193; Atkins v. Saxton, 77 N. Y. 195, in which cases the right of the sheriff to take possession of the whole property was recognized; Reinheimer v. Hemingway, 35 Pa. St. 432; Deal v. Bogue, 20 Pa. St. 228; Knerr v. Hoffman, 65 Pa. St. 126. Minnesota.--Barrett v. McKenzie, 14 Minn. 20; Caldwell v. Auger, 4 Minn. 217; Wickham v. Davis, 24 Minn. 167. Mississippi.--Under Code 1880, 1770 (following the Codes of 1871 and 857), by which it was provided that the sheriff might levy upon property in which the defendant had an interest, but which was not exclusively in his own possession, without actually...