State ex rel. McMurray v. Doan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This case was tried by the court. The defendant asked certain declarations of law, as follows: 1. Every conveyance, by mortgage or otherwise, of goods and chattels, made with the intent to hinder and delay creditors in the collection and enforcement of their debts by process of law, is fraudulent and void ; and any person accepting such conveyance with a knowledge of such intent on the part of the vendors, obtains no valid title, although…
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This case was tried by the court. The defendant asked certain declarations of law, as follows: 1. Every conveyance, by mortgage or otherwise, of goods and chattels, made with the intent to hinder and delay creditors in the collection and enforcement of their debts by process of law, is fraudulent and void ; and any person accepting such conveyance with a knowledge of such intent on the part of the vendors, obtains no valid title, although he may have paid a valuable consideration, for such goods. If the court finds from the evidence that Forrester & Bros,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
An execution was levied upon a stock of goods in a store. The plaintiff claimed to be the owner of them. The goods were seized and removed to the sheriff’s warehouse, and the return on the execution shows a levy made on the whole property. At a subsequent day another execution came into the hands of the sheriff against the same defendants, upon which the deputy (as he testifies) made a memorandum in pencil in these words: “ Levied this execution July 16th, 1861.” The. goods were sold under the levy of the first execution, and, producing more than enough to satisfy that execution, the surplus…
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