7 Kan. 359 | Kan. | 1871
'The opinión of the court was delivered by
In this case there are five assignments ■ of error; but as the plaintiff in error seems, from the brief filed by his counsel, to have abandoned all but the ■ third assignment, we shall not consider the others. We ■ may, however, in passing, say that we do not consider the other assignments as tenable.
In the court below, the defendant in error, James Laughlin, was plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error, W. M. .Johnson, was defendant. An attachment was issued in the case against the property of the defendant below on the grounds, as stated in the affidavit therefor, “ that said -Johnson has assigned his property, or a part thereof, with the intent to defraud, hinder, and delay his creditors, • and that said defendant has property and rights in action ■which he conceals.” The defendant filed an affidavit denying these grounds, and moved the court to dissolve - the attachment. Whether these grounds were true or not seems to have been the sole question before the court below. The motion was heard on affidavits. No oral ■ evidence was introduced. The court overruled the motion to dissolve the attachment, and this ruling the defendant below claims was erroneous. We think the . evidence, taking the whole of it together, was sufficient ■ to sustain the order of the .court below overruling said •motion. The said Johnson executed an instrument in writing, which purported to convey all his property to "Nelson Case for the benefit of his (Johnson’s) creditors. ' There was some evidence on the face of this instrument fending to show that it was executed for the purpose of
The order oí; the court below is affirmed.