Haas v. Whittier
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County granting a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County granting a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The following are the instructions to the jury referred to in the opinion: — Instructions aslced by plaintiff and given:—■ “ 1. It appears in this case that on the fifth day of December, 1887, a petition was filed by certain creditors of Edgar Sessions, in involuntary insolvency, against the said Sessions, and that such proceedings were had therein that afterwards he was adjudged an insolvent, and an assignment of his property was duly made by the clerk of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
This is an action brought to recover a sum of money, which the plaintiff, as assignee of an insolvent debtor., Edgar Sessions, claims should be paid him in his representative capacity by the defendants, W. F. Whittier et al., by reason of their having received from the insolvent, and-converted to their own use, certain goods delivered to them in satisfaction of a debt due the defendants by the insolvent.
The proposition upon which the plaintiff based his claim for a recovery is, that the defendants had received the property by a transfer made by the insolvent, with the intention of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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