Walters & Walker ex rel. Gatewood v. Whitlock
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. .Torwakd, J., who delivered the opinion of the Court, read tlie following statement of tlie facts of tlie case prepared by liimself: The facts of this case, as appears by the record, are thus: On the 7th day of April, A. N. 1854, the said Walters & Walter made and executed a vohmtary deed of assignment in the city of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, of certain property, real and personal,…
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This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. .Torwakd, J., who delivered the opinion of the Court, read tlie following statement of tlie facts of tlie case prepared by liimself: The facts of this case, as appears by the record, are thus: On the 7th day of April, A. N. 1854, the said Walters & Walter made and executed a vohmtary deed of assignment in the city of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, of certain property, real and personal, book accounts, notes, bills, choses in action of them, the said Walters & Walker, whether the same were then due and owing…
1Opinion of the Court
FORWARD, J.,
after reading the statement prepared by himself, proceeded to deliver the opinion of the Court.
The refusal of the Judge in the Court below to give the instructions asked for by plaintiff’s counsel brings us to consider whether the Court erred in so doing, and whether the charge of the Court under the evidence in the case was correct and proper.
As this assignment was executed in Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, it becomes us, first, to inquire what was its effect upon the assets of said Walters & Walker in this State, and what force our Courts of law will give it, as…
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