Teah v. Roth

39 Ark. 66

• Court: Supreme Court of Arkansas
• Decided: November 15, 1882
• Status: Published

Opinion

Smith, J.

In these cases the plaintiffs brought actions against the maker of an assignment for the benefit of certain enumerated creditors, and caused attachments to be levied upon portions of the stock of goods assigned. The defendant interposed no defense to the merits, but contested the ground of attachment, which was, that she had fraudulently disposed of her property, the fraud relied upon being the making of said assignment. The attachments were sustained, and we affirm the judgments below upon the authority of Raleigh v. Griffith, 37 Ark., 150. The deed empowered the assignees to retail the goods privately for twelve months, and then to sell the remnant by public auction. This is in contravention of our statute of assignments, which directs a public sale within one hundred and twenty days after the assignee takes upon himself the execution. of the trusts of the assignment. And the legal effect is to avoid the deed, as against non-assenting creditors.

See, also, Bartlett, Reed & Co. v. Teah, 1 McCrary, 176, where this same deed was before the Federal Circuit Court, and the same conclusion was reached.