Meyer & Co. v. Sulzbacher
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Selma. Tried before the Hon. Jona. Haralson. This was a statutory trial of the right of property in and to a stock of goods, between M. Meyer & Co., attaching creditors of George Sulzbacher, as plaintiffs, and Mrs. Bertha Sulzbacher, the wife of said defendant, as claimant.
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From the City Court of Selma. Tried before the Hon. Jona. Haralson. This was a statutory trial of the right of property in and to a stock of goods, between M. Meyer & Co., attaching creditors of George Sulzbacher, as plaintiffs, and Mrs. Bertha Sulzbacher, the wife of said defendant, as claimant. The plaintiffs’ attachment was sued out on the 2d December, 1882, on the ground that the defendant “ has money, property or effects, liable to satisfy his debts, which he fraudulently withholds, and has fraudulently disposed of his property ; ” and it was levied by the sheriff, on the same day, “ on…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebyille, J.
— -The rulings of the court in this case necessarily raise the inquiry as to the validity of the chancery proceedings, by which, in August, 1877, Mrs. Sulzbacher was decreed to he relieved of her disabilities of coverture, under the provisions of section 2731 of the Code (1876). It is urged by the appellants’ counsel, that these proceedings should be adjudged void, for one or more reasons apparent upon their face.
The first objection taken is, that the petition to the chancellor failed to make a ease within his jurisdiction, as conferred by the statute, which gives him, either in term time or…
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