Tennant-Stribling Shoe Co. v. Gallant

Missouri Court of Appeals

Tennant-Stribling Shoe Co. v. Gallant

53 Mo. App. 423, 1893 Mo. App. LEXIS 78

CourtMissouri Court of Appeals

DecidedApril 3, 1893

StatusPublished

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Tennant-Stribling Shoe Co. v. Gallant, 53 Mo. App. 423, 1893 Mo. App. LEXIS 78 (Mo. Ct. App. 1893).

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Gill, J.

— Plaintiff sued defendant Gallant in attachment and procured a certain stock of goods then in Gallant’s possession to be levied on. Woolfson Bros. & Co. filed their interplea, claiming a mortgage lien on a portion of the goods. On a trial of the inter-plea plaintiff was successful and Woolfson Bros. & Co. have brought the case here by writ of error.

[424]*424It may be well doubted if the appealing inter-pleaders have presented here such an abstract of the record as justifies us in reviewing this case. The rules of this court have been almost entirely ignored in both abstract and brief.

However, from the meager showing made, we understand the case to be this: Interpleaders claim certain of the attached goods under a chattel mortgage made by defendant Grallant. Plaintiff attacked the mortgage as fraudulent and void, in that it was for the use and benefit of the mortgagor; that said mortgagees knowingly permitted the mortgagor to remain in possession of the goods and to continue to sell in the ordinary way, using the proceeds for his own purposes and not accounting to the interpleaders therefor.

Now, although the mortgage may have been fair on its face, yet if by the impeaching evidence it was shown that the mortgagor, with the knowledge and consent of the mortgagees, continued in the possession and was permitted to sell and dispose thereof in the usual course of business for his own benefit, then the mortgage was void as to the creditors and stands condemned by our statute on fraudulent conveyances. Revised Statutes, 1889, sec. 5169. “ It is the facts which invalidate the deed, and not that they are made to appear by this or that evidence. It is sufficient if they are made manifest, and it can make no difference in principle as to the legal effect of the facts, whether they appear on the face of the instrument itself, or whether they are made to appear by extrinsic evidence.” Bullene v. Barrett, 87 Mo. App. 189; Eby v. Watkins, 39 Mo. App. 27.

Although the instructions given by the lower court are not properly presented here for our review, we find on reading the same that they substantially declare the law as above set forth.

[425]*425The admission of certain evidence is complained ■of, but as that evidence is not set out in the abstract ■we cannot undertake to pass on the question.

The judgment is affirmed.

All concur.

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Gill, J.

— Plaintiff sued defendant Gallant in attachment and procured a certain stock of goods then in Gallant’s possession to be levied on. Woolfson Bros. & Co. filed their interplea, claiming a mortgage lien on a portion of the goods. On a trial of the inter-plea plaintiff was successful and Woolfson Bros. & Co. have brought the case here by writ of error.

[424]*424It may be well doubted if the appealing inter-pleaders have presented here such an abstract of the record as justifies us in reviewing this case. The rules of this court have been almost entirely ignored in both abstract and brief.

However, from the meager showing made, we understand the case to be this: Interpleaders claim certain of the attached goods under a chattel mortgage made by defendant Grallant. Plaintiff attacked the mortgage as fraudulent and void, in that it was for the use and benefit of the mortgagor; that said mortgagees knowingly permitted the mortgagor to remain in possession of the goods and to continue to sell in the ordinary way, using the proceeds for his own purposes and not accounting to the interpleaders therefor.

Now, although the mortgage may have been fair on its face, yet if by the impeaching evidence it was shown that the mortgagor, with the knowledge and consent of the mortgagees, continued in the possession and was permitted to sell and dispose thereof in the usual course of business for his own benefit, then the mortgage was void as to the creditors and stands condemned by our statute on fraudulent conveyances. Revised Statutes, 1889, sec. 5169. “ It is the facts which invalidate the deed, and not that they are made to appear by this or that evidence. It is sufficient if they are made manifest, and it can make no difference in principle as to the legal effect of the facts, whether they appear on the face of the instrument itself, or whether they are made to appear by extrinsic evidence.” Bullene v. Barrett, 87 Mo. App. 189; Eby v. Watkins, 39 Mo. App. 27.

Although the instructions given by the lower court are not properly presented here for our review, we find on reading the same that they substantially declare the law as above set forth.

[425]*425The admission of certain evidence is complained ■of, but as that evidence is not set out in the abstract ■we cannot undertake to pass on the question.

The judgment is affirmed.

All concur.

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