Taub v. Swofford Bros. Dry Goods Co.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Appeal from the District Court of Pueblo County. Prior to the 15th of June, 1894, one J. S. Glass was doing business as a merchant in the city of Pueblo.
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Appeal from the District Court of Pueblo County. Prior to the 15th of June, 1894, one J. S. Glass was doing business as a merchant in the city of Pueblo. On that date his stock of goods was estimated .at a value of about $9,000. Being insolvent, he on that date executed to Isaac Livingstone, a brother-in-law, a chattel mortgage upon the stock of goods for the sum of $2,529, to appellant for $1,641, one to his wife for some amount not stated, also to two other parties, but, as they were not accepted, need not be noticed. The entire stock was delivered to Livingstone, whose mortgage was to be…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, P. J.
We are, at the outset, greatly embarrassed by the fact that *215upon the trial all the attaching creditors were joined as plaintiffs, and the cases of the different interveners consolidated, and but one trial had, as the same issues were involved in all. All the testimony was applicable to all; but, after judgment, the parties intervening again separated, Livingstone prosecuted an appeal to the supreme court, and appellant to this court. But very meagre abstracts of the evidence are presented to this court, and some important testimony is only presented by counsel in brief and argument. The…
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