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44 Ill. 218

Pease v. Anderson

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1867

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1867-04-15

Theodore D. Murphy, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, originally commenced before a justice of the peace, by the appellee, against the appellant, and one Daniel Corey, for levying upon certain property, under an attachment, in favor of one Brundage, against Charles Bowman, as the property of said Bowman, which said property appellee claimed as having been purchased by him from Bowman, prior to the commencement of the attachment suit.

Relies on Cook v. Miller · Schlussel v. Willet

Decided 1867-04-15

Mr. Justice Breese

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2There is but one point presented by this record deemed of sufficient importance to be noticed at length, and that is the fourth instruction given for the plaintiff.

¶3That instruction is as follows: “ The defendant can only attack the sale in question as fraudulent, by showing that he represented creditors, and that the affidavits and attachments in this case, of themselves, do not prove such creditors. Neither does the justice’s docket prove the same, judgments in attachment, where there is no personal service, being no evidence of debt.”

¶4We are of the opinion that the judgment in the attachment suit, and the execution thereon, authorized the constable to show that the sale of the property levied on was in fraud of creditors ; as to that property, he represented creditors. Cook v. Miller, 11 Ill. 611; Schlussel v. Willet, 34 Barb. 615.

¶5The instruction was erroneous, and for this error the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded.

¶6Judgment reversed.'

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