J. H. Coghill & Co. v. Boring
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District. Plaintiffs, with various other merchants of San Francisco and Sacramento, in May and June, 1858, sold on credit and delivered to Bailey Gatzert, a merchant in Nevada, goods amounting to $6,924 82. In March previous he had bought of most of these parties other goods on credit, and paid for them.
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Appeal from the Twelfth District. Plaintiffs, with various other merchants of San Francisco and Sacramento, in May and June, 1858, sold on credit and delivered to Bailey Gatzert, a merchant in Nevada, goods amounting to $6,924 82. In March previous he had bought of most of these parties other goods on credit, and paid for them. On the twenty-ninth of June, 1858, many of the goods first named, as also other goods, were in his store at Nevada, and on that day were seized by defendant as Sheriff, on an attachment issued in the suit of St. Losky, Levy & Co. v. Gatzert. July 15th, 1858, St. Losky,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Field, C. J. concurring.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs for the recovery of certain goods which the defendant, as Sheriff, had taken into his possession, by virtue of process against one Gatzert. The plaintiffs claimed the goods as their property, on the ground that, though they had been sold by themselves and their assignors, yet that the sale was void, and vested *218no title in Gatzert, for the reason that Gatzert was really a fraudulent vendee, who obtained possession of them by false pretenses.
The case was tried by a Referee, who found for the plaintiffs, and reported a…
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