Legal Opinion

Parker-Blake Co. v. Ladd

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided November 4, 1915Published

Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Proceedings for rent begun by attachment by Ernest F. Ladd against Eugene H. Rencher, with claim interposed to certain of the goods by the Parker-Blake Company, Limited. Judgment for plaintiff as against the claimant, and claimant appeals.

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Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Proceedings for rent begun by attachment by Ernest F. Ladd against Eugene H. Rencher, with claim interposed to certain of the goods by the Parker-Blake Company, Limited. Judgment for plaintiff as against the claimant, and claimant appeals. The following is the agreed statement of facts: E. H. Rencher, doing business as Grand Bay Drug Company, had rented from plaintiff a certain building at Grand Bay, Mobile county, Ala., and had defaulted in payment of said rent, and that the goods levied upon under the landlord’s…

1Opinion of the CourtPelham, P. J.

The case was tried on the evidence contained in an agreed statement of facts, which is set out in the bill of exceptions, from which it appears that the defendant in the original suit, one Rencher, had purchased from the appellant, the claimant in the trial court, certain goods, which were levied on by the appellee, the plaintiff below, under a landlord’s attach*410ment for rent; that the goods were purchased on credit without any reservation of title in the seller; that at the time of the sale Rencher was in failing circumstances and had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay for the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Maxwell v. Brown Shoe Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1896
  2. Berney National Bank v. Pinckard, DeBardelaben & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1888
  3. Wollner & Lowenstein v. Lehman, Durr & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1887
  4. Wilcox v. San Jose Fruit Packing Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1896
  5. Hawkins v. Damson & AbrahamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913

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