Dooley v. Pease

Citations

• 180 U.S. 126
• 21 S. Ct. 329
• 45 L. Ed. 457
• 1901 U.S. LEXIS 1290

Syllabus

<p>•In Illinois the law does not permit the owner of personal property to sell it arfid still continue in possession of it, so as to exempt it from seizure and attachment at the suit of creditors of the vendor; and in cases of this kind the courts of the United States regard and follow the policy of the state law.</p> <p>Where a case is tried by the court, a jury having been waived, its findings upon questions of fact are conclusive in the courts of review.</p> <p>Errors alleged in the findings of the court are not subject to revision by the Circuit Court of Appeals or by this court, if there was any evidence upon which such findings could be made.</p> <p>Applying tbe settled law of Illinois to tbe facts as found, the conclusion reached in this case by tbe Circuit Court, and affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, that the sale was void against the attaching creditors, must be accepted by this court.</p>