Craft v. Bloom
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge, did not sit in this case, but Hon. J. A. Green presided by interchange. On January 17, 1881, J. B. Rosenfeld, a storekeeper, who, weeks before, had announced his intention to make an assignment, applied to Watson, Watson & Smith, telling them that he put himself in their hands.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge, did not sit in this case, but Hon. J. A. Green presided by interchange. On January 17, 1881, J. B. Rosenfeld, a storekeeper, who, weeks before, had announced his intention to make an assignment, applied to Watson, Watson & Smith, telling them that he put himself in their hands. These lawyers, upon examining his affairs, advised him to make a general assignment for the equal benefit of all his creditors, and agreed that their fee of five hundred dollars should be secured by the instrument, and the grantor released…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, C. J.
The court below properly held that the deed of assignment in this case was not fraudulent upon its face; and the jury properly found, as we think, that it was shown by the testimony to have in fact been executed by the grantor with intent to defraud his creditors. It is urged however by the appellant that the verdict and judgment must be reversed because of erroneous rulings of the court in giving and refusing instructions to the jury. Thus it is said that the court erred in charging the jury that if they believed that the assignment was made with fraudulent intent on the part of the…
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