Winner v. Hoyt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of MilwauJcee County. The following- statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: The following- facts -were mostly found by the trial court. The balance appear or are clearly inferable from the undisputed evidence. April 15, 1885, the debtors, E. S. Hoyt and Wesley Kinney, were wholesale liquor dealers in Milwaukee, under the firm name of E. S. Hoyt & Co., and had been since 18TT.
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APPEAL from the County Court of MilwauJcee County. The following- statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: The following- facts -were mostly found by the trial court. The balance appear or are clearly inferable from the undisputed evidence. April 15, 1885, the debtors, E. S. Hoyt and Wesley Kinney, were wholesale liquor dealers in Milwaukee, under the firm name of E. S. Hoyt & Co., and had been since 18TT. April 15, 1885, the firm was inc^ebted to Frcmlt M. Hoyt, Wisconsin Marine & Eire Insurance Company Bank, Alice McLeod, Ephraim Mariner, and Brown, Merritt & Moore,…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The statutes expressly .provide that “ all voluntary assignments or transfers whatever of any real estate, chattels real, goods, or. chattels, rights, credits, moneys, or effects for the benefit of or in trust for creditors, shall be void as against the creditors of the person making the same unless ” executed as therein required. Sec. 1694, *234R. S. So the statute provides that “ any and all assignments . . . made for the benefit of creditors, which shall contain or give any preference to one creditor over another creditor, except for the wages of laborers, . . . shall be void.” Sec. 1, ch.…
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