Jones v. Alford
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: R. Gr. SiebeckeR, Circuit Judge. The defendant Abbott, January 17, 1896, executed and delivered to W. II. Alford, the garnishee defendant, an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: R. Gr. SiebeckeR, Circuit Judge. The defendant Abbott, January 17, 1896, executed and delivered to W. II. Alford, the garnishee defendant, an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors. At the time of making the assignment all the personal property of the defendant Abbott, not by law exempt, was in the hands of the sheriff of Dane county by levies under certain executions issued upon judgments obtained in the circuit court for that county against the defendant Abbott. A copy of said deed of assignment, with the…
1Opinion of the CourtPinotsy, J.
1. The officer, C. N. Brown, court commissioner, taking the bond of the assignee, Alford, did not sign or execute the certificate required by sec. 1696, R. S., to be indorsed on the copy of the assignment, and, as found by the court, at the time of the filing of the said copy of said assignment and of the bond he did not indorse, and at the the time of the service of the affidavit for garnishment and garnishee summons he had not indorsed, on the said copy, his certificate, as required by the statute (R. S. sec. 1696). An unsigned indorsement was not, in any proper sense, a •compliance with…
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