Case Name: Hocker versus Stricker, Under Sheriff
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1787-09
Citations: 1 Dall. 225
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hocker versus Stricker, Under Sheriff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Dallas
Volume: 1
Pages: 225–225

Head Matter:
Hocker versus Stricker, Under Sheriff.
IT was ruled in this case, that before the goods are removed, the Sheriff ought to allow a reasonable time, for the Defendant in Replevin to find security on a claim of property; which, in the practice of Pennsylvania, supplies the place of a writ de proprietate probanda:

Opinion:
And
Shippen, President,
said, that if the Jury were of opinion that a reasonable time had been refused, the Defendant, Stricker, could not, in an action of trespass, justify under the writ of Replevin.
See ant. 15 b.