George v. Ransom
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Tenth District. Proceedings supplementary to execution: Plaintiff, a judgment creditor of L. W. Ransom, obtained an order citing Horace Beach, secretary of the Citizens’ Steam Navigation Company, to appear, and answer as to the indebtedness of the company to defendant.
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Appeal from the Tenth District. Proceedings supplementary to execution: Plaintiff, a judgment creditor of L. W. Ransom, obtained an order citing Horace Beach, secretary of the Citizens’ Steam Navigation Company, to appear, and answer as to the indebtedness of the company to defendant. Beach testified that there was due two hundred and fifty dollars as dividends on fifteen shares of the stock of said company; that the shares stood in the name of E. S. Ransom, wife of defendant. For the purposes of the case, it was admitted that the stock was the separate property of the wife. Plaintiff then…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Field, C. J. concurring.
This question arises from the record in this case: can a creditor of the husband subject the proceeds or dividends of the separate estate of the wife to his claim F In this case, the property sought to be subjected was the dividends of certain stock purchased by the wife with her separate funds.
By the fourteenth section of article eleven of the Constitution, it is provided: “ All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall…
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