Case: Frey versus Leeper
Abbreviation: Frey v. Leeper
Decision Date: 1791
Docket Number: 
Citation: 2 Dall. 131
Volume: 2
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Parties: Frey versus Leeper .
Judges: 
Pages: 131–131

Head Matter:
Frey versus Leeper .
THE determination of this cause turned on the following point, which was submitted to the Court, to wit; whether goods, which, after being distrained for rent, had been replevied, and delivered to the plaintiff in replevin, could be taken in execution.
Decided at Cumberland, Nisi Prius, before Shippen and Bradford, Justices, in October, 1791.

Opinion:
By the Court :
—This point has been already determined in Philadelphia. The lien on the goods is discharged by the security given to the sheriff; and as soon as they are delivered back to the plaintiff in replevin, they are open; to execution, or a new distress.
Judgment for the Plaintiff.