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61 Cal. 269

Hecht v. Green

California Supreme Court

Decided August 22, 1882

California Supreme Court · decided 1882-08-22

Hundley, J. The complaint, in effect, alleged that in an action by the plaintiff against Boyles & Evans, who were indebted to them in a certain sum, an attachment was issued, and a copy of the same, with the notice of garnishment, was served upon the defendants in this action, who, it was alleged, had in their possession and under their control certain moneys and other property of the attachment debtors; that judgment was after-wards entered in favor of the plaintiffs…

Decided 1882-08-22

The Court:

¶1The motion for nonsuit was properly granted. The evidence introduced by plaintiffs did not tend to prove anything beyond the fact that the defendants had possession of the property of Boyles & Evans by virtue of an assignment made by them for the benefit of their creditors. Having proved so much, it was incumbent on the plaintiffs to impeach. that assignment, before asking the Court to disregard it. The Court had no right to assume that it was not a valid assignment. We do not think that the provisions of the Civil Code relative to assignments for the benefit of creditors were repealed by the “Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,” approved April 16,1880.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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