Farwell v. Jones
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Gass Cirewit Cowt. The plaintiffs commenced an action at law against the defendant, Jones, and caused an attachment to issue therein, and levied the same upon a stock of goods then in the possession of Geo. E. Pennell, as assignee of said Jones under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors.
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Appeal from Gass Cirewit Cowt. The plaintiffs commenced an action at law against the defendant, Jones, and caused an attachment to issue therein, and levied the same upon a stock of goods then in the possession of Geo. E. Pennell, as assignee of said Jones under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. After-wards the plaintiff commenced an action in equity against said Jones and the other defendants, to set aside the general assignment made by Jones to Pennell, and to set aside three chattel mortgages upon the goods, made by Jones to the defendants, McWaid, Whitney, and McDaniels,…
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock, Ch. J.
-For some three years prior to- the twenty-eighth of February, 1882, the defendant, Jones, was engaged in selling merchandise at Atlantic, in Cass county. Some four or five weeks before the date above mentioned, he went to Colfax Springs, and remained there for the benefit of his health, and returned to Atlantic on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1882. During this absence his business was conducted by clerks. In the forenoon of the day after his return, he made three chattel mortgages to the defendants, McWade, "Whitney, and McDaniels, upon all of his stock of goods and…
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