22 Kan. 604 | Kan. | 1879
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This was an attachment brought by Campbell against Warner. The affidavit charged the defendant with having assigned and disposed of and with be
The dissolving of the attachment by the justice, and the affirmance of such order, are the main causes of complaint before us. We perceive no error in the action of the district court. The evidence presented to the justice was all oral except a single deposition, and the well-established rule of this court applies, that said judgment ought not to be disturbed by us, if there is any evidence to sustain it. In the case, the justice was the trier of all the questions of fact. On the part of the defendant it was shown, that after the commencement of this action, and before the issuance of the order of attachment, viz., on the 23d of September, 1878, the defendant sold and disposed of all his property in good faith, to pay certain of his creditors, to the exclusion of plaintiff and others, without an intention to defraud, but simply to prefer some creditors to others. If the justice believed the evidence of defendant (and of that the justice was the judge), the order discharging the attachment was properly made, as such a disposition of property, although to the advantage of one creditor in preference to another, is not contrary to the law, and is not a ground for attachment. (Avery v. Eastes, 18 Kas. 505.) Perhaps upon a trial upon all the evidence, this court might have come to a conclusion different from that of the justice; but this is not a sufficient cause for a reversal.
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.