Case Name: ROSE WACHTEL v. WILLIAM CAMPBELL et al.; FRANK SEINSHEIMER, Assignee, v. JOSEPH WACHTEL et al.
Court: Hamilton County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1901-01
Citations: 21 Ohio C.C. 731
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROSE WACHTEL v. WILLIAM CAMPBELL et al. FRANK SEINSHEIMER, Assignee, v. JOSEPH WACHTEL et al.
Judges: Before Swing, Giffen and Jelke, JJ.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the circuit courts of Ohio
Volume: 21
Pages: 731–732

Head Matter:
(First Circuit — Hamilton Co., O., Cir’t Court
Jan. Term, 1901.)
Before Swing, Giffen and Jelke, JJ.
ROSE WACHTEL v. WILLIAM CAMPBELL et al. FRANK SEINSHEIMER, Assignee, v. JOSEPH WACHTEL et al.
Bight of assignee for creditors to ' sue for property transferred for gambling debt—
The general assignee for the benefit of creditors is the proper person to proceed to recover property transferred by his assignor in consideration of a gambling debt.
The plaintiff sued for the benefit-of herself and other creditors to set aside the transfer of certain life insurance by Joseph Wachtel to secure the payment'of a note for $6,000, which said Wachtel had executed in payment of a debt arising out of marginal transactions; the general assignee brought a similar action.

Opinion:
Jelke, J.
These are not cases involving actual or constructive fraud, where the transfer is good as against the grantor, but voidable at the suit of a creditor.
The transfer under consideration in these cases was absolutely void at all times and between all parties, both at common law and under our statutes, resting upon a gambling consideration, which in law is no consideration. It is not true as contended by counsel for Rosa Wachtel that at common law where such a transaction was executed the title was permitted to remain in the transferee, The transferrer being out of possession, was in such cases in pari delicto with the transferee, and could obtain no standing in court. That does not mean that such a transfer hád any legal attributes or that there was any recognition of title having changed.
H. P, Kaufman, for Plaintiff in Error.
Adolph L. Brown and Frank Seinsheimer, for Defendants in Error.
The assignee, as the representative of all creditors, including Rosa Wachtel, succeeded to all the property rights of Joseph Wachtel without incurring any of his personal odium or disability. Therefore, on November 27, 1894, title to the property represented by these policies of insurance passed to Seinsheimer, assignee. An action under Revised Statute,,-6344, by a creditor is not necessary. An action by the assignee to compel Campbell to surrender these policies is proper.
We approve the opinion of the court of common pleas (Hollister, J.) in 7 Nisi Prius, p. 507.
Judgment affirmed.