Case Name: Cadwalader versus Tindall
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1853-04-08
Citations: 20 Pa. 422
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cadwalader versus Tindall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 20
Pages: 422–422

Head Matter:
Cadwalader versus Tindall.
Cattle received by a tenant to be pastured for hire are not liable to distress for rent due by him.
Error to the District Court, Philadelphia.
.This was an action of replevin by Tindall v. Cadwalader, for certain cattle belonging to the plaintiff, which had been distrained for rent.
Gregg, the tenant of Cadwalader, received cattle to pasture on the land demised, and the cattle of the plaintiff were there in the daytime and sent home in the evening. Whilst on the premises they were distrained for rent due by Gregg. The jury found for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court on the point, whether the cattle were in law subject to distress for rent. On the reserved point judgment was entered for Tindall, the plaintiff.
The entry of such judgment was assigned for error.
Montgomery, for plaintiff in error.
D. C. Morris, for defendant.
April 8.

Opinion:
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.