State ex rel. Glaser v. Mason
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, W. H. Horner, Judge. The question as to the intent with which the act was done may be solved by the testimony of the parties themselves.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, W. H. Horner, Judge. The question as to the intent with which the act was done may be solved by the testimony of the parties themselves. Blue v. Penniston, 27 Mo. 213; Sibley v. Hood, 3 Mo. 290 ; Boss v. Qriutsinger, 7 Mo. 245; Lane v. Kingsberry, 11 Mo. 402; Steward v. Leverence, 43 Mo. 334; Smalley v. Hale, 37 Mo. 102; ■ HopMns t>. Sieoeri, 58 Mo. 201 ; Burgert v. Borehert, 59 Mo. 80. An instruction that a “preference is valid even though when it is given the debtor may not intend to pay his other creditors, and .even though the preferred creditor is…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is an action against Isaac M. Mason, formerly sheriff of the city of St. Louis, and the sureties on his bond, for an alleged breach of his bond in a trespass which consisted of seizing, under a writ of attachment, property claimed by the plaintiffs’ usee, merchants of St. Louis, doing business under the style of Glaser Brothers, who will in the succeeding portions of this opinion be designated as the plaintiffs. The trial before a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs. The evidence given at the trial tended to show that Isaac Trepp, a merchant doing business at…
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