80 Miss. 189 | Miss. | 1902
delivered the opinion of the court.
We think the court erred in giving a peremptory instruction for the plaintiffs below. It' is agreed in writing that the appellees recovered a judgment against W. Shaphran on May 8, 1901, and that on trial of the claimant’s issue on the claim of property by appellant, Kaufman, the plaintiffs, who were judgment creditors of W. Shaphran, offered in evidence an “assignment, or what purports to be an assignment, executed by W. Shaphran to E. I'rankel, dated the 22d day of April, 1901, signed ‘W. Shaphran, per B. S., Agt.’ ” It is further agreed that this was a general assignment, and that the assignee filed no petition in chancery, gave no bond, and filed no schedules,
There appears no objection in the court below to the assignment as evidence. It is now here suggested that it is not competent evidence, because of the signature to it, “W. Shaphran, per B. S., Agt.;” the authority of “B. S., Agt.,” not being shown. This might prevail but for the agreement that the goods “were delivered by W. Shaphran to E. Erankel, who took
The real contention.is that the assignment, and sale under it by the assignee, were absolutely void, because the assignee did not conform to the directions of code 1892, § 117. This might avail if the attachment had intervened between the execution of the assignment and the sale and delivery of the possession of the goods by the assignee to Kaufman. But the attachment was not interposed until two weeks or more thereafter. Shaphran, in good faith, conveyed the property to Erankel for the benefit of his creditors, without preference, and put him in possession; and he, in good faith, sold and delivered the possession of them to Kaufman, who bought and took possession for a fair price in good faith. This is enough. Baldwin v. Flash, 58 Miss., 593. Appellees can derive no comfort from Code, § 124, which declares a general assignment, where certain schedules are not filed, “void as to all preferences contained in it.” This assignment contains no preferences, and the argument would be that it is therefore not void, and that, if such had been the intent in §117, the legislature would have said so.
Reversed and remanded..