Case Name: BURGUNDER BROS. v. WEIL & GUGGENHEIM
Court: Franklin County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1897-01
Citations: 20 Ohio C.C. 706
Docket Number: 
Parties: BURGUNDER BROS. v. WEIL & GUGGENHEIM.
Judges: , Before Summers, Wilson and Shearer, JJ.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the circuit courts of Ohio
Volume: 20
Pages: 706–706

Head Matter:
(Second Circuit—Franklin Co., O., Cir’t Court
Jan. Term, 1897.)
, Before Summers, Wilson and Shearer, JJ.
BURGUNDER BROS. v. WEIL & GUGGENHEIM.
Itinerant vendor's act—
The $600, deposited with the secretary of state under the itinerant vendors’ act, sec. 4402-1, R. S., 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 got swindled on the goods.
See s. c., 37 W. L. B., 354 42 B., 74 (60 O. S., 234.)
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 &■ Guggenhoim,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 & Guggenheim 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.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This judgment is reversed. The $500, deposited with the secretary of staté 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.