Pritchett v. . Tolbert

At the trial of this action in the Superior Court, the plaintiff contended that the judgments on which the executions in the hands of the defendant were issued, having been rendered and docketed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court, within four months preceding the date of the voluntary deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors, which was executed by the judgment debtors to the plaintiff, were preferences, under C. S., 1611, and for that reason were void. This contention was sustained by the judge. In this there was error.

C. S., 1611, is as follows: “It is the duty of the…