Brown v. Mabbett
Brown v. Mabbett
Opinion of the Court
This petition in error is brought to this court for the purpose of reversing an order of the district court discharging an attachment. The facts of the case are substantially as follows:
On May 13, 1881, the defendant, H. Mabbett, was indebted to Smith & Keating and the Smith & Keating implement company, in the sum of $7,580, and in order to secure this indebtedness, Mabbett delivered to Smith & Keating, as collateral security, the notes of third persons to Mabbett, amounting to the sum of $1,800; and also transferred to the plaintiff, P. S. Brown, trustee for Smith & Keating and the Smith & Keating implement company, certain goods of the value of $3,969.24, which were to be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of Mabbett’s said debt. Immediately after the transfer of these goods from Mabbett to Brown, Brown returned them to Mabbett, with the understanding that Mabbett should sell them and apply all the proceeds thereof in payment of his said debt to Smith & Keating, and to the Smith & Keating implement company. On June 8, 1881, Mabbett entered into another agreement with Smith & Keating and the Smith & Keating implement company, under the terms- of which agreement Mabbett was to pay Smith & Keating and the Smith.& Keating implement company the sum of $200 per week, until the entire debt from Mabbett to Smith & Keating and to the Smith & Keating implement company should be paid. Whether this agreement was to supersede the arrangement made between Mabbett and Smith & Keating, and the Smith & Keating implement company and Brown, on May 13,1881, or whether it was to affect that arrangement in any manner whatever, the testimony does not clearly show, and such testimony is conflicting. The plaintiff, Brown, claims that the $200 per week was to'be paid by Mabbett, in addition to the proceeds of sales of all goods which had been transferred to Brown, and returned by Brown to Mabbett; while Mabbett claims
It will be observed from the foregoing facts, that from June 8, 1881, up to October 13, 1881, Mabbett paid Smith & Keating and the Smith & Keating implemént company more than $200 per week in money, besides delivering to them some goods; and it will also be seen that he paid to Smith & Keating and to the Smith & Keating implement company an amount much greater than the entire amount of all the proceeds of all the sales of the goods which had been transferred to Brown and redelivered to Mabbett. Hence, according to Mabbett’s understanding of the agreement made on June 8, 1881, Mabbett fully complied with
Reference
- Full Case Name
- P. S. Brown, as Trustee, &c. v. H. Mabbett
- Status
- Published