Legal Opinion

Sigler v. Knox County Bank

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1858Published

Bill oe Review. Reserved in the District Court of Knox county. At the spring term, A. D. 1851, of the Knox county common pleas, the respondent recovered a judgment on warrant of attorney, against W. H. Sigler, S. A. Sigler, Jacob Sigler and John Welch, for $582 and costs of suit, on a bill of exchange, with warrant of attorney attached, purporting to have been executed by said parties, and bearing date February 12, 1851, payable at ninety days.

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Bill oe Review. Reserved in the District Court of Knox county. At the spring term, A. D. 1851, of the Knox county common pleas, the respondent recovered a judgment on warrant of attorney, against W. H. Sigler, S. A. Sigler, Jacob Sigler and John Welch, for $582 and costs of suit, on a bill of exchange, with warrant of attorney attached, purporting to have been executed by said parties, and bearing date February 12, 1851, payable at ninety days. At the fall term of said court, Jacob Sigler and John Welch, two of the said parties, moved the court to open said judgment as to them, and allow them…

1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.

Numerous errors are assigned by the counsel for complainants in review, some of which have not been called to the attention of the court in the argument, and the result towhich we have arrived renders an examination and decision of a portion of those which have been discussed, unnecessary.

It is claimed in substance, that the court below erred in finding that the complainants in review were, in equity, trustees of the creditors of the firm of W. H. & S. A. Sigler, as to that portion of the joint assets, purchased by them of said firm, and paid for by the individual liabilities of said W. H.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Rice v. BarnardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1848
  2. Miller v. EstillOhio Supreme Court · 1856
  3. Anderson v. SmithIndiana Supreme Court · 1840
  4. Johnson v. HaysOhio Supreme Court · 1855

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