Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_10/html/0810-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ATTACHMENT — ITINERANT VENDORS — DEPOSIT.
    [Franklin Circuit Court.]
    Summers, Wilson, and Shearer, JJ.
    Burgunder Bros. v. Weil & Gugenheim.
    Purpose of Deposit Required of Itinerant Vendors.
    The 5500 required to be deposited with the secretary of state, under the-law relating to itinerant vendors, is for the purpose of securing purchasers of goods from being defrauded and is not subject to attachment at the suit of general creditors.
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county.
    The law in question requires intinerant vendors who come into the state with bankrupt goods, etc., to deposit with the secretary of state $500 as a guarantee of good faith. Weil & Gugenheim, a foreign firm, came to Columbus and did business there for a short time. They failed. Burgunder Bros., of Columbus, who were creditors, attached the $500 in the hands of the secretary of state, but they discovered that Weil & Gugenheim had assigned that money to a Cincinnati firm. The contest was between the Columbus and Cincinnati creditors mentioned. The ■common pleas of Franklin county decided that the money belonged to Burgunder Bros., under the attachment.
   Per Curiam.

This judgment is reversed. The $500, deposited with the secretary ■of state under the statute, is for the purpose of securing the purchasers of goods from being defrauded. The deposit is required to make it possible for customers of these places to recover if they get swindled on the goods.