Adams v. La Comb

Decided June 1, 1789

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1789-06

Replevin. The material question, on the trial of this cause, was, whether the goods of a stranger, being removed from the premises, before a distress, could be pursued and seized, within the thirty days which the act of assembly allows for pursuing and seizing the goods of the tenant ? (See 1 Sm. L. 370.)

Relies on Water's Executors v. McLellan

Decided 1789-06

¶1Distress.

¶2The goods of a stranger can be distrained for rent, only while on the premises.1

¶3Replevin. The material question, on the trial of this cause, was, whether the goods of a stranger, being removed from the premises, before a distress, could be pursued and seized, within the thirty days which the act of assembly allows for pursuing and seizing the goods of the tenant ? (See 1 Sm. L. 370.)

¶5Shippen, President,

¶6in the charge to the jury, delivered it as the clear opinion of the court, that the right of pursuing and seizing goods, after their removal, was confined to the goods of the lessee, from whom the rent was really due ; and that the goods of a stranger could only be distrained, while they were on the premises, (c)