Segnitz v. Garden City Banking & Trust Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee -county: D. H. JohNSON, Circuit Judge. Appeal by plaintiff from an order sustaining demurrer to tbe complaint.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee -county: D. H. JohNSON, Circuit Judge. Appeal by plaintiff from an order sustaining demurrer to tbe complaint. From tbe complaint, and certain stipulations and concessions added thereto, it appears that in June, 1898, the Erull & Yolger Company was a corporation existing under the laws of Illinois, having its principal place of business at Milwaukee, and branch establishments at Chicago, .Illinois, and Kansas City, Missouri, and on that day made a ■due and formal voluntary assignment in Milwaukee, in compliance with ch. 80, S. & B. Ann.…
1Opinion of the CourtBaedeeN, J.
The complaint shows that a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, with its principal office- and place of business in this state, made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of its creditors, in this state. The question for decision is whether such assignment carried title to-*174the personal estate of tbe assignor, situate in Illinois. The .general proposition may be stated that a voluntary, common-law assignment for the benefit of creditors, good in the state where made, carries title to personal property, wherever situated. This court has so held, and such holding is supported by…
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