Harris v. Colorado Trading & Transfer Co.
Harris v. Colorado Trading & Transfer Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This appeal is prosecuted by Harris, who was an intervener in a suit brought before a justice by The Colorado Trading & Transfer Company, against a firm doing business under the name of The Princeton Grocery and Produce Company, and originally composed of Martin, Smith and Howe. Howe went out of the firm prior to the suit, but the severance of his connection is wholly immaterial. It occurred about the middle of April, 1894, and the business was continued by Smith and Martin under the old firm name, to about the 1st of May. At this time the firm was considerably indebted to divers wholesale dealers and grocers, and had contracted a debt with Williams & Wood in Denver, amounting to about $850, and one to the appellee for $218.93. About the time the debt to Williams & Wood was contracted, the appellant, Harris, who represented that firm as a traveling salesman, in writing guaranteed the payment of the debt. There was no evidence respecting the consideration for the guaranty, and the fact of its existence is only stated as a part of the history of the case. Harris was related to one member of the firm, and probably acted from a desire to aid his relative in establishing and building up a trade. The firm became somewhat
The only question argued on this appeal and presented by the briefs of counsel is as to the sufficiency of the change of possession from the firm to Harris at the time it was attempted to carry out the terms of the transfer and put Harris in as the actual owner. The argument is to the proposition that the evidence in the case clearly demonstrates that the change of possession was such as the law requires to make the transaction valid as against purchasers or attachment creditors. Appellant’s counsel insist that the transaction is entirely valid under the various decisions of this state, and that the court erred in bolding the transfer fraudulent as against creditors. It is the only question presented for our consideration. As has already appeared from the suggestion respecting the absence of an exception to the judgment, we are precluded from considering this question. The evidence is not before us, and we are not at liberty to examine it for the purpose of determining whether we concur with the trial court in its conclusions, or whether in our judgment the evi
Our attention is called to no error which requires us to reverse the judgment, and it will be therefore affirmed.
Affirmed.
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