Seeley v. Seeley-Howe-Le Van Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — ‘IIon. A. II. McVey, Judge. This is a proceeding to establish a preferred claim in a receivership proceeding upon the proceeds of certain goods which it is claimed were obtained from the intervener, Sweetser, Pembrook & Co., by the Seeley-Howe-Le Van Company through false and fraudulent representations, and with intent not to pay for the same.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — ‘IIon. A. II. McVey, Judge. This is a proceeding to establish a preferred claim in a receivership proceeding upon the proceeds of certain goods which it is claimed were obtained from the intervener, Sweetser, Pembrook & Co., by the Seeley-Howe-Le Van Company through false and fraudulent representations, and with intent not to pay for the same. The receiver denied the alleged fraud; pleaded that intervener elected to confirm the sale, and is estopped from repudiating it; and laches on its part after discovering the alleged fraud. The case was tried to the…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
í receivers-to’recoverIIer goods. The questions presented are neither new nor complicated. The Seeley-Howe-Le Van Company was a corporation doing business in the city of Des Moines. . Be-fwee:a fhe 2d day of January and the 3d day March, 1902, Sweetser, Pembrook & Co. delivered to said corporation, upon an order taken in November, 1901, a large quantity of goods upon credit. It is claimed that these goods were obtained by fraud, in that the corporation, through its agents and by means of reports to a commercial agency, falsely represented its financial condition and the state of its accounts,…
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