Case Name: Teetor against Robinson
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1821-06
Citations: 7 Serg. & Rawle 182
Docket Number: 
Parties: Teetor against Robinson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 7
Pages: 182–182

Head Matter:
Teetor against Robinson.
June.
An insolvent debtor who has been discharged by the insolvent law of New York and assigned among other property a horse in the hauds of a citizen of Pennsylvania, cannot afterwards bring trover for such horse.
In Error.
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county.
Trover by Conrad Teetor the plaintiff below, against John W. Robinson for a horse. Teetor was discharged in New Tork under the insolvent law of that State, and assigned his property, among which was, “ a claim to a horse in hands of John W. Robinson” for which horse this suit was now brought. Teetor gave bond with, security, according to the law of New lark, to deliver all the assigned property to the assignees in three months..
The defendant obtained a verdict and judgment below.
Baldwin, for the plan tiff in error,, cited 2 Johns. 344. 10 Johns. 400. 11 Johns. 490.
The Court stopped Mallory, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff was discharged under the insolvent law of New York, and assigned among other things the horse, for which this action of trover was brought. After the assignment, the property was out of the plaintiff, and therefore the present action cannot be supported. The judgment must therefore be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed*