Court Opinion

ID: 5419624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:25:26.504005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:10.833118
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
The plaintiff’s president, the judgment debtor, owed defendant for an operation performed on his wife in 1921. In August, 1922, the debtor and his two brothers incorporated the plaintiff with $1,000 in the treasury. It does not appear what property was turned over at the incorporation or how much each of the promoters contributed. Moreover, the trunks and phonographs seized, which are the subject of this action, were bought and paid for by the corporation after its formation. The judgment against the debtor was not rendered until February 27, 1925, although the action was begun January 29, 1923. The defendant pleaded title in the president (debtor) and not in the plaintiff, on the ground that the corporation was but a mask by which the president avoided paying his doctor’s bills. The defendant is prepared to justify the seizure under section 278, subdivision 1, of • the Debtor and Creditor Law (added by Laws of 1925, chap. 254) which says that a defendant creditor may “ a. Have the conveyance set aside or obligation annulled to the extent necessary to satisfy his claim, or b. Disregard the conveyance and attach or levy execution upon the property conveyed.” Clearly (b) does not apply here because the property seized, no matter with what money it was purchased, was not fraudulently conveyed to the corporation. Likewise, if the defendant relies on (a) he should sue in a proper court to have the conveyance set aside. Nothing in the case shows that title was in the president and not, as the sales bills and checks would indicate, in the corporation.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with thirty, dollars costs to appellant to abide the event.
All concur; present, Bijur, Delehanty and Wagner, JJ.