Ford v. Judsonia Mercantile Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from White Chancery Court. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. The Judsonia Mercantile Company, a private corporation doing business in White County, being insolvent, on the 27th day of September, 1887, conveyed all of its real and personal property, notes and accounts to G. W. Henson in trust for the benefit of the plaintiffs (except the Judsonia Mercantile Company, and G. W. Henson) who were creditors of said company in the sum of $5,530.87-100. . By the stipulations of the…
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APPEAL from White Chancery Court. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. The Judsonia Mercantile Company, a private corporation doing business in White County, being insolvent, on the 27th day of September, 1887, conveyed all of its real and personal property, notes and accounts to G. W. Henson in trust for the benefit of the plaintiffs (except the Judsonia Mercantile Company, and G. W. Henson) who were creditors of said company in the sum of $5,530.87-100. . By the stipulations of the deed the trustee was authorized to sell the stock of merchandise at retail at private sale for twenty days, and then…
1Opinion of the CourtHemingway, J.
When the complaint was filed and the application to appoint a receiver presented, the property involved was in the custody of the Sheriff, who had seized and held it under writs of attachment from the White Circuit Court,, against the property of the Judsonia Mercantile Company.
It appears from the complaint that the property belonged to the defendant in the writs; it was therefore rightly seized in obedience thereto. In this respect the facts differ from those presented in the case of Willis v. Reinhardt, decided during the present term, in which we ruled, that a stranger to an attachment…
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