State Ex Rel. Stevens Motor Car Co. v. Allen
Supreme Court of Missouri
Certiorari. (1) A preference shown a bona-fide creditor by an insolvent debtor will be upheld even though the transaction renders a debtor insolvent, and in finding that the Stevens Motor Car Company did not have the right to prefer its creditor, the bank, respondents have failed to follow the rule announced in the latest controlling decisions of the Supreme Court, as follows: Growney v. Lowe, 234 Mo. 696; New England Bank v. Montgomery, 192 S. W. 941; Bank v. Pry, 216 Mo.…
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Certiorari. (1) A preference shown a bona-fide creditor by an insolvent debtor will be upheld even though the transaction renders a debtor insolvent, and in finding that the Stevens Motor Car Company did not have the right to prefer its creditor, the bank, respondents have failed to follow the rule announced in the latest controlling decisions of the Supreme Court, as follows: Growney v. Lowe, 234 Mo. 696; New England Bank v. Montgomery, 192 S. W. 941; Bank v. Pry, 216 Mo. 34; Shelly v. Booth, 73 Mo. 77; Wall v. Beedv, 161 Mo. 637; Gutta-Percha Mfg. Co. v. Supply Co., 149 Mo. 551; Loewen v,…
1Opinion of the CourtElder, J.
Relators seek by writ of certiorari to quash a judgment of the St! Louis Court of Appeals entered in the case of J. W. Ford, respondent, v. Stevens Motor Car Company and Southern Commercial and Savings Bank, appellants (relators herein), which judgment affirmed a judgment in favor of respondent rendered by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.
The facts involved are thus stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals:
" On July 17, 1914, the Stevens Motor Car Company obtained a judgment against respondent for the sum of $1,852.98. On March 8, 1917, respondent recovered judgment against the…
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