Goodman v. Clarkson

1. A sale or transfer of a stock of goods, wares, or merchandise may amount to a fraud, under the bulk-sales act of 1903 (Civil Code of 1910, §§ 3226-3229), although only a part of the stock be sold, where the sale is “out of the usual or ordinary course of the business or trade of the vendor.” Where a person engaged in the business of “selling Reo automobiles” maintains his principal office and place of business in one city and maintains a branch office and place of business in another city, and at the latter place keeps a stock of goods, wares, and merchandise, consisting of second-hand…