Bigelow v. Stringer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of trespass de bonis asporlatis brought by the plaintiffs, consisting of several mercantile firms of the city of St. Louis, against the defendants, also consisting of a number of firms in the same city.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of trespass de bonis asporlatis brought by the plaintiffs, consisting of several mercantile firms of the city of St. Louis, against the defendants, also consisting of a number of firms in the same city. The plaintiffs alleged that on or before April 2, 1861, they were the owners of a certain lot of goods in a certain store in the town of Tipton, Moniteau county, State of Missouri, and that the defendants on the said 2d of April took them from the possession of the plaintiffs; that on or before the 10th of April, 1861, they were…
1Opinion of the CourtFagg, Judge
In the argument of this case several points have been discovered which we do not deem necessary to consider in this opinion, as the matter of chief importance is the construction of the instrument under which the respondents claim to be entitled to the property, for the taking of which by the appellants they instituted their suit in the court below. The determination of the case must at last turn upon the question as to whether or not this instrument upon its face shows that it is within the statute of this State concerning fraudulent. conveyances. If it can be shown to be so, then it was *205the…
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