Whittaker v. Voorhees
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Nemaha District Court. Action brought by Whittaker against Voorhees, as sheriff of Nemaha county, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful taking and conversion of a stock of goods. At the April Term, 1885, the defendant recovered a judgment. The plaintiff brings the case here. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Clogston, C.:
From some time in 1882 up to January, 1884, O. O. Marbourg was engaged in the hardware business at Sabetha, Kansas, and at that time had a large stock of hardware and agricultural implements. The plaintiff and W. W. Marbourg, a brother of O. O. Marbourg, resided at Atchison, Kansas. On January 3,1884,0.0. Marbourg executed four chattel mortgages on his several stocks of goods to his brother, W. W. Marbourg, who took immediate possession of said mortgaged property; and the next day he sold the entire stock of goods in bulk, without invoice, to the plaintiff, for the…
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