Moore v. Hayes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff, as receiver of John H. Moork, an insolvent, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover the value of goods alleged to have been the property of the insolvent and to have been converted by the defendant to his own use.
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Plaintiff, as receiver of John H. Moork, an insolvent, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover the value of goods alleged to have been the property of the insolvent and to have been converted by the defendant to his own use. On the trial before Lochren, 3., (a jury having been waived,) it appeared that prior to the filing of the petition in insolvency, Moork delivered the goods in question to the defendant, in full satisfaction of a debt, and that two days thereafter they were taken from defendant’s possession on a writ of .replevin in an action instituted by…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
An insolvent debtor, Moork, delivered a quantity of goods to the defendant, a creditor, in satisfaction of his debt. Two days afterwards the debtor gave a bill of sale of the same goods to the Yallop-De Groot Company, another creditor, in satisfaction of its debt. The Yallop-De Groot Company then commencing an action for the recovery of the goods, against this defendant, took the property by proper process in that action from his possession, and afterwards delivered a part of the same to this plaintiff. In that action this defendant recovered from the plaintiffs therein the value of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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