Young v. Clapp
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. The following statement of the facts of this case appears in the opinion of the Appellate Court: “The proof in this case shows that for some time prior to January 1, 1884, Caleb Clapp and Thomas Davies were partners in the wholesale jewelry business in Chicago, under the firm name of Clapp & Davies.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. The following statement of the facts of this case appears in the opinion of the Appellate Court: “The proof in this case shows that for some time prior to January 1, 1884, Caleb Clapp and Thomas Davies were partners in the wholesale jewelry business in Chicago, under the firm name of Clapp & Davies. On said January 1,1884, said Clapp & Davies entered into an agreement with one William B. Clapp, by which they purchased from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The thirteenth section of the Assignment Act does not prohibit preferences generally, but only preferences which are contained in written deeds of assignment voluntarily executed for the benefit of creditors. The language of the section is, that “every provision in any assignment hereafter made in this State for the payment of one debt or liability in preference to another shall be void,” etc. A preference, given by a debtor after he has made up his mind to execute a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors, has been held to be void, upon the theory that such a preference must be…
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