Foster v. Mullanphy Planing-Mill Co.
Decision Date | 16 May 1887 |
Citation | 92 Mo. 79,4 S.W. 260 |
Parties | FOSTER v. MULLANPHY PLANING-MILL CO. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis court of appeals.
A. M. Berry, C. B. Stark, and J. L. Torrey, for appellant. H. J. Grover, for respondent.
Action brought August 9, 1883, on four promissory notes for $1,600 each, dated September 14, 1881, and maturing in two, three, four, and five years after date. At the time of filing his petition, plaintiff sued out an attachment, based on the grounds that the defendant had fraudulently conveyed and assigned, and had fraudulently disposed of, its property and effects, so as to hinder and delay its creditors. Schureman and Gibson were summoned as garnishees. Defendant, in usual form, pleaded in abatement of the attachment. The issues thus raised were submitted on the following agreed statement of facts:
"(15) That, on the day when the said deed of trust was executed, said defendant was insolvent, but said deed was not fraudulent in fact, nor was it executed or received for the purpose, or with any actual fraudulent intent on the part of the parties thereto, or any of them, or on the part of the board of directors, or either of them, of hindering or delaying any creditor or creditors of said defendant, but said deed was executed and received by said parties in good faith, and for the bona fide purpose of securing the claims therein mentioned."
The deed of trust also formed a part of the agreed statement, but it is unnecessary to insert it here.
On this agreed statement the circuit court found the issues...
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