Crocker v. Huntzicker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment of tbe circuit court for Clark county: W. C. SilvebthobN, Judge. This action was commenced March 21, 1898, by the plaintiff, as assignee of George Huntziclcer, to set aside certain conveyances and transfers made by the assignor to his children in September, 1893. The defendants severally answered by way of admissions, denials, and counter allegations.
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Appeal from judgment of tbe circuit court for Clark county: W. C. SilvebthobN, Judge. This action was commenced March 21, 1898, by the plaintiff, as assignee of George Huntziclcer, to set aside certain conveyances and transfers made by the assignor to his children in September, 1893. The defendants severally answered by way of admissions, denials, and counter allegations. At the close of the trial the court found, as matters of fact, in effect: (1) That November 3, 1891, George Ilwvbzicher made a voluntary assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors to one-John Huntzicker,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 17, 1901:
Oassoday, O. J.
Several objections are made to the judgment. Some of them are questions of fact disposed of by *188the findings supported by evidence. Others are questions of law, or mixed questions of law and fact, requiring consideration.
1. Counsel for the defendants properly contend that, in the absence of a statute giving the right, the assignee, in case of a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors, takes no right of action as against previous grantees or mortgagees, other than the assignor himself would have had. Hawks v. Pritzlaff,…
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