Lightman Bros. & Goldstein v. Epstein
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. William Jackson. Trial of tbe right of property levied upon under execution, between Jacob Epstein and Lightman Bros. & Goldstein, claimants. From a judgment adverse to claimants, they appeal.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. William Jackson. Trial of tbe right of property levied upon under execution, between Jacob Epstein and Lightman Bros. & Goldstein, claimants. From a judgment adverse to claimants, they appeal. The following charges were refused to the claimants: (4) “If you believe from the evidence that the claimants paid a price for the goods not grossly inadequate to their value, and that such price was paid to the creditors of Kartus Dry Goods Company, then your verdict must be in favor of the claimant.” (5) “If you find from the evidence that in good…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Trial of the right of property, in which the appellants intervened as claimants. Plaintiff offered evidence to prove his claim against the defendant, the Kartus Dry Goods Company; the writ of execution, with the sheriff’s return thereon; the levy of the execution on the property in controversy; and that the goods, when levied on, were in the storehouse where the defendant had carried on business until about six *665months prior to the levy, and in charge of Bam Kartus, who had been an employe of the defendant corporation. Here the .plaintiff rested. Thereupon the claimants showed that the Kartus…
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