Thompson v. Winona Harvester Works
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Cross appeals from a judgment of the district court for Fillmore •county, Farmer, J., presiding, sustaining defendant’s title to the notes transferred to it under the agency contract, as stated in the opinion, and setting aside, as an unlawful preference, the chattel mortgage mentioned in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The plaintiffs, asserting themselves to be the assignees of J. H. and G. H. Nepstad, copartners doing business under the firm name of Nepstad Bros., brought this action to recover possession of a number of promissory notes (or their value, if possession could not be had) made by various parties, payable to said firm, and also to invalidate and set aside a mortgage executed and delivered to defendant by said firm upon its personal property; which notes had been indorsed and transferred, and the mortgage executed and delivered, in violation of the terms of that part of chapter 148, Laws 1881,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- May v. WalkerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
- In re the Assignment of BirdSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
- Kingman v. BartonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1877
- Swart v. ThomasSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1879
- Fairbanks v. WhitneySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Bartleson v. MunsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co. v. BrooksSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1896