Legal Opinion

Campbell v. Jackson

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided June 3, 1891PublishedCited by 1 opinion

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waupaca County. It appears from the record that October 80, 1889, the plaintiffs, constituting the firm of Campbell Eros. & Cameron, commenced this action against the defendant to recover. $750, and interest thereon, on an express contract; that at the time of the commencement of the action one of .the plaintiffs made an affidavit for an attachment therein, and which, as amended, stated as the ground thereof, in effect, that the defendant…

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waupaca County. It appears from the record that October 80, 1889, the plaintiffs, constituting the firm of Campbell Eros. & Cameron, commenced this action against the defendant to recover. $750, and interest thereon, on an express contract; that at the time of the commencement of the action one of .the plaintiffs made an affidavit for an attachment therein, and which, as amended, stated as the ground thereof, in effect, that the defendant had assigned, conveyed, disposed of, or concealed, or was about to assign, convey, dispose of, or conceal, his property,…

1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.

The ground alleged -for the attachment was, in effect, that the chattel mortgage given by the defendant to Dick & Berkley, April 16, 1886, the additions thereto, and the renewal thereof in April, 1888, were in fact made by Jackson with the intent to defraud his creditors.

The testimony taken in the case of Campbell v. Dick, ante, p. 42, so far as applicable, was stipulated into this case on the trial of the issue raised by the traverse of the affidavit for the attachment. Both trials were had before the same presiding judge; and his findings as to the bona fides of the mortgage so given to…

2Cited by1 opinion

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