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3 Grant 245

Heffner v. Reed

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 4, 1858

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1858-02-04

<p>1. Our short judgment in replevin, when in favor of the defendant, is a judgment for the return of the goods replevied.</p> <p>2. A sheriff canno.t be allowed to contradict his return to the replevin.</p>

Decided 1858-02-04

¶1The opinion was delivered

Per curiam.

¶2Though there are a good many assignments of error here, yet only two of them, the second and the last, are relied on, and even these we cannot sustain. Our short judgment in replevin, when in favor of the defendant, is a judgment for the return of the goods replevied, and it would be so in terms were it written out in full. In a suit on the replevin bond it may be declared upon as if it were so written, for such is the legal effect.

¶3It seems to us that it was right to not allow the sheriff to contradict his return to the replevin. If it is false, the party injured by it has his remedy.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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