Rice v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““By reason of the assignment of the goods by Harris to Slack, under chapter 8, Annotated Code, thereby placing the goods on the demised premises in the hands of the chancery court, so that to distrain it by Rice would be a contempt of said court, has the right of the lessor been destroyed? We think not. The right which the lessor had, unless the assignment had been made, to seize the goods for the payment of his rent, is not available at law, by reason of the assignment, but on that account it is a good foundation for a claim in the chancery court, where the assigned ‘goods are administered, and for a decree there for such claim. If we understand counsel for appellee, they suppose that Rice might have a good claim for the intervention of the chancery court, if he had filed his cross-petition within thirty days from the time the goods were removed from the rented premises. We do not perceive that the removal of the goods from the demised premises affect in any way the rights of Rice. Hirsh was a bona fide purchaser of the goods, and, in his hands, they were not subject to he attached by Rice, whether they were on the premises, or within thirty days from a removal therefrom. Hirsh was a purchaser under the decree of the court, and by this proceeding in court, and under the decree of the court, Rice was precluded from going against the property sold, and for that reason gives him a right to demand of the assignee of the goods the payment of his rent from the money produced by a ”

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