Standard Implement Co. v. Lansing Wagon Works
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Cowley District Court. Hon. A. M. Jackson, Judge. This is a controversy between attaching creditors of P. G. Van Vleet. The Lansing Wagon Works, a corporation, brought suit against Van Vleet on the fifth of February, 1892, to recover the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for goods sold and delivered; which sum, it was alleged,- was then due and payable. An attachment was issued, and levied on the property of the defendant.
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Error from Cowley District Court. Hon. A. M. Jackson, Judge. This is a controversy between attaching creditors of P. G. Van Vleet. The Lansing Wagon Works, a corporation, brought suit against Van Vleet on the fifth of February, 1892, to recover the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for goods sold and delivered; which sum, it was alleged,- was then due and payable. An attachment was issued, and levied on the property of the defendant. On the next day, the Standard Implement Company brought suit against Van Vleet on a promissory note for one thousand dollars and' interest; and the Grand Detour…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
I. The question for our consideration in this case is the scope of the inquiry into the validity of the plaintiff’s cause of action, in a controversy with other attaching creditors who, by interpleas, question the validity of the prior attachment. It was developed on the trial of this case that while the cause of action stated in the petition was one for goods sold and delivered, the debt was in fact evidenced by promissory notes, only one of which was due ; that an attachment for twenty-five hundred dollars had been obtained as upon a debt past due when in fact only eleven hun*128dred dollars…
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