Wood v. Yeatman
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Chancery. Case 34. ERROR TO THE LIVINGSTON CIRCUIT. Case stated. James Davis, of Maury county, Tennessee, in the fall of 1851, purchased a stock of goods in Philadelphia, (as is charged,) with the fraudulent design of not paying for them. The goods were packed and addressed to him, and marked with the names, also, of the vendors, and started from Philadelphia by way of Pittsburg.
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Chancery. Case 34. ERROR TO THE LIVINGSTON CIRCUIT. Case stated. James Davis, of Maury county, Tennessee, in the fall of 1851, purchased a stock of goods in Philadelphia, (as is charged,) with the fraudulent design of not paying for them. The goods were packed and addressed to him, and marked with the names, also, of the vendors, and started from Philadelphia by way of Pittsburg. At the latter place, while in the possession of the commission merchant, (Forsythe,) to whose care they had been sent, they were attached by a creditor of Davis. Davis being at Pittsburg, appealed to Yeatman for…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Stites
delivered the opinion of the Court—
In the fall of 1851, James Davis, of Maury county, Tennessee, went to Philadelphia, and, with the fraudulent design of not paying for the same, bought on a credit, of the appellants, an assorted stock of goods, suitable for the Tennessee market.
The goods were packed in boxes, marked with his name and address, as well as the names of the vendors, and forwarded by the usual conveyances to Jacob Forsythe, Jr., a commission merchant at Pitts-burg, on their way to their final destination in Tennessee.
At Pittsburg they were attached by a creditor of…
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