Case ID: ky-op_4/html/0327-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Peters:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S. Watson, Trustee, &c. v. W. F. Morton, &c.
    Assignment for Benefit of Creditors.
    Attachment lien prior to assignment, not perfected as provided by-Statute.
    APPEAL PROM GRAVES CIRCUIT COURT.
    August 18, 1870.
   Opinion op the Court by

Judge Peters:

Tbe facts of this case can bring it within tbe principles decided, by this court in tbe case of Johnson v. Parker, &c., 4 Bush, 149. Tbe two cases are analogous, and after a review and re-consideration of tbe question involved, tbe court is entirely satisfied withtbe conclusion wbicb was reached in tbe case supra, and that is decisive of this case.

Tbe appellant, who was tbe trustee and bolder of tbe legal! title of bis own motion, was a party to tbe suits, and the prayer in the petition for general relief was broad enough to authorize the relief sought.

Bush, for appellants.

W. F. Morion, for appellees.

Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.