Bank of Commerce v. Chambers
Decision Date | 26 November 1888 |
Citation | 10 S.W. 38,96 Mo. 459 |
Parties | BANK OF COMMERCE v. CHAMBERS et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis circuit court; SHEPARD BARCLAY, Judge.
Suit by the Bank of Commerce against B. Maziere Chambers and Julius S. Walsh to sequester the income of an estate held by Walsh in trust for Chambers, a judgment debtor of the plaintiff. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and, plaintiff declining to plead further, judgment dismissing the petition was rendered, from which it appeals.
Albert Arnstein and J. P. Maginn, for appellant. Hitchcock, Madill & Finkelnburg, for respondents.
The petition in this cause, omitting formal parts, is as follows: That on the 8th day of April, 1881, in a case, No. 55,867, in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, being a case of it, the Bank of Commerce, as plaintiff, against B. M. Chambers and Margaret F Smith, defendants, it recovered judgment against Chambers and Smith for the sum of $5,134.35, and costs, which judgment was therein ordered to bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum from its date; that thereafter, to-wit, on the 18th day of May, 1881, the plaintiff caused an execution to issue on said judgment, which execution was No. 150, returnable to June term, 1881; that said execution was directed and delivered to the sheriff of the city of St. Louis, and was by him duly returned on the 6th day of June, 1881, nulla bona; that thereafter, to-wit, on the 19th day of October, 1882, in another case, 56,939, in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, being the case of it, the Bank of Commerce, as plaintiff, against B. Maziere Chambers and R. Graham Frost, as defendants, it recovered a judgment against B. Maziere Chambers, who is a defendant in the present suit, and R. Graham Frost, for the sum of $5,514.37, and costs, which judgment was therein ordered to bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum from date; that thereafter, on the 2d day of January, 1884, the plaintiff caused an execution to issue on said judgment, which execution was No. 135, returnable to February term, 1884; that said judgment was directed and delivered to the sheriff of the city of St. Louis, and by him duly returned on the 14th day of February, 1884, nulla bona. And plaintiff further says that nothing has been paid on either of the above-mentioned judgments; that none of the defendants in either of said cases has any property or effects of any kind subject to execution and levy. And plaintiff says that Mrs. Marie C. Chambers, the wife of defendant B. Maziere Chambers, died on the 9th day of December, 1883, in the county of St. Louis, state of Missouri; that she made a will, which was duly probated in the probate court of St. Louis county, on the 20th day of December, 1883; and a certified copy thereof was filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, in Book 723, p. 81, on the 24th day of December, 1883; that among other provisions immaterial to this case the said testatrix gave the income of property worth half a million dollars, which income is now $20,000 per annum, to the defendant Walsh, in trust for the defendant Chambers, during his natural life. The language of the will on this point is as follows:
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