Royce & Co. v. Gazan

Jackson, Chief Justice.

[Attachments in favor of H. A. Royce & Co. and Loomis & Hart were levied upon a stock of goods and a house and lot, as the property of Nathan Gazan, and Simon Gazan interposed a claim thereto. The cases were tried together by agreement.

The claimant’s title rested upon a purchase claimed to have been made from the defendant in payment of a preexisting indebtedness, except a balance, which was paid to the defendant in money. These debts were evidenced by certain notes and drafts. The plaintiffs denied the honafide making of this sale, and insisted that the alleged…