Case Name: Pabst Brewing Company v. Cassius L. Johnson et al.
Court: Cuyahoga County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1903-12-24
Citations: 17 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 1
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pabst Brewing Company v. Cassius L. Johnson et al.
Judges: Henry, J.; Marvin, J., and Winch, J., concur.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Reports (new series)
Volume: 17
Pages: 1–2

Head Matter:
ACCEPTANCE OF PAYMENT BY CREDITOR FROM INSOLVENT DEBTOR.
Circuit Court of Cuyahoga County.
Pabst Brewing Company v. Cassius L. Johnson et al.
Decided, December 24, 1903.
Insolvent Debtor — When May Prefer Creditor.
Section 6343, Revised Statutes, as amended by 95 O. L., 608, does not alter the rule of Gross v. Carstone, 49 O. S., 548, that a creditor may accept payment as security from an insolvent debtor, so long as it is not obtained for the benefit of a third party also.
Klein Karris, for plaintiff in error.
Tanney é Linder, contra.
Henry, J.; Marvin, J., and Winch, J., concur.
Affirmed without opinion, Pabst Brewing Co. v. Peltz et al. 81 Ohio State, 566.

Opinion:
The petition must be dismissed. Section 6343, Revised Statutes, as amended by 95 O. L., 608, does not, we think, alter the rule of Cross v. Carstone, 49 O. S., 548, that a creditor may ac-. cept payment or security from an insolvent debtor, so long as it is not obtained for the benefit of a third party also.
Whatever may be effect of the words "in trust or otherwise" and the words "to prefer one or more creditors," we do not infer that the Legislature intended so revolutionary a change as plaintiff contends.
Tt follows that the first assignment to Pelitz did not bring this case within that statute.
Nor could the pendency of this action, considered as a creditor's bill, have operated to prevent the administrator of Henry P. Johnson's estate from exercising his right and discharging his duty of paying the fund in question to the administrator of Myra C. Johnson's estate when the latter ivas appointed.
And whatever might have been the duty of Myra's administrator, had he been made a party before disbursing the fund, we see nothing in the pendency of the action against Cassius L. Johnson et al to prevent lawful payment by said administrator to him, or on his order, to his creditors. And this is so, even though such transaction resulted in preferring the creditors so paid.
The end accomplished was not unlawful. Neither was the concerted means. Hence there was no actionable conspiracy.