Case Name: DEMERTGES v. HUTTAS, et al
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1922-12-18
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 75
Docket Number: No. 4059
Parties: DEMERTGES v. HUTTAS, et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 75–75

Head Matter:
No. 74
DEMERTGES v. HUTTAS, et al
Cuyahoga Court of Appeals,
No. 4059
SALES — (1) Construction of Bulk Sales Law— Failure to obtain judgment removes right of municipal court to appoint trustee — (2) Remedy equitable, and court without jurisdiction.
Error to M. C. of Clev.,
Decided Dec. 18, 1922
Attorneys — Spear, Godfrey & Spear, for Dem-erges; Kraus, McMasters, Good & Goldman, for Huttas.

Opinion:
VICKERY, J.:
Epitomized Opinion
1. Failure of a purchaser of a stock of merchandise to comply with certain conditions of the Bulk Sales Law of Ohio, makes the purchaser a trustee for creditors, and the statute gives them the right to have a trust declared and a trustee appointed. Failure to give the required notice is of itself un-sufficient to hold the buyer as trustee, for such appointment must be made by a court, such as the common pleas, having power to declare a trust.
2. The municipal court had no such jurisdiction, in any other case than where a judgment has been rendered in its own court, and none had been in this instance. Notwithstanding the fact that the proceeding is simply a statuary matter the remedy is clearly equitable and in this case, no judgment having been obtained against the purchaser, the municipal court had no right to appoint a trustee.