Shaver Wagon & Carriage Co. v. Halsted
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — How. O. B. Ayres, Judge. Ti-irs cause and four other cases, involving what is claimed to be similar questions, were tried at one time, in the court below, as equitable actions. They involve conflicting claims of creditors to priority in the assets of the defendant D. W. Halsted, who failed in business about February, 1887. The plaintiffs in the actions are creditors, who base their claims upon certain attachments by garnishment.
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Appeal from Webster District Court. — How. O. B. Ayres, Judge. Ti-irs cause and four other cases, involving what is claimed to be similar questions, were tried at one time, in the court below, as equitable actions. They involve conflicting claims of creditors to priority in the assets of the defendant D. W. Halsted, who failed in business about February, 1887. The plaintiffs in the actions are creditors, who base their claims upon certain attachments by garnishment. Other creditors intervened in the actions, and claim under certain orders of an assignee of Halsted, upon the alleged ground…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
I. ‘ For some years prior to February 5, 1887, the defendant B. W. Halsted was engaged in the business of selling agricultural implements and farm machinery at the city of Fort Bodge. On said day his place of business and his stock of merchandise were destroyed by fire. He was largely in debt. He *732held four policies of insurance against loss by fire in the sum of two thousand dollars each. Immediately after the fire he consigned said insurance policies to his wife, H. F. Halsted. The insurance was in part) for the benefit of certain persons who were the owners of implements and machinery,…
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