Lang v. Rickmers

Stayton, Associate Justice.

A. Rickmers was indebted to his wife in the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars. As to this there is no controversy. On December 31,1886, he made-a contract to sell to A. & H. Kleinecke a stock of goods he then owned, for which they were to execute notes to Mrs. Rickmers—one for six hundred dollars, payable February 1, 1887, and' the other for the balance, payable January 1, 1888. The goods-were to be sold at seventy-five per cent of their original cost. The purpose in having the notes executed to Mrs. Rickmers was to secure and pay to her a part of the sum due…