Hyde v. Weitzner

47 N.W. 311, 45 Minn. 35, 1890 Minn. LEXIS 499

• Court: Supreme Court of Minnesota
• Decided: December 4, 1890
• Status: Published

Opinion

Vanderburgh, J.

On the 11th day of January, 1890, an application upon the petition of creditors of the insolvents, Weitzner & Gruenberg, was made to the court for the appointment of a receiver, under the insolvency act. The hearing .thereof was by the court continued to January 14, 1890. In the mean time the insolvents made a general assignment, under the provisions of the same act. This fact being made to appear at the hearing, and the court being fully satisfied that the rights of all the creditors would be fully v, protected by the assignment, and that no preferences would be acquired or become valid through lapse of time by reason of the postponement of the hearing of the application for a receiver, denied the same, on the ground that the assignee was clothed with the same powers, and was equally subject to the control of the court, as a receiver would have been if the application had been granted. The court was satisfied hlso that the assignee selected was in all respects a suitable and competent person to execute the trust. Under these circumstances, we think, the court was fully justified in refusing to grant the petition. Bliss v. Doty, 36 Minn. 168, (30 N. W. Rep. 465.) The parties, being insolvent, were entitled, under the act, as amended in 1889, to make an assignment as they did, unless the pending application for a receiver superseded that right. But this, we think, is not the ease, because the assignment was a proceeding in the same direction, and to effect the same purpose; and if no other objection can be urged, and no legal prejudice can result to creditors, we see no objection to allowing the assignment to stand. Market Nat. Bank v. Heintzeman, 15 R. I. 431, (8 Atl. Rep. 78.)

Order affirmed.

Note. A motion for a reargument of this case was denied January 7, 1891.