In re Doyle & Son's Estate

Citations

• 6 Cal. Unrep. 392
• 59 P. 993
• 1900 Cal. LEXIS 1094

Syllabus

<p>Insolvency.—Where, Prior to Insolvency Proceedings Against a Firm, the wife of a member, who was also a creditor, received a draft belonging to the firm in good faith, without intending to defraud other creditors, but to keep the money from being wasted by attachments, her surrender of the principal part of the money to the assignee after an action was brought by him against her therefor, but before judgment, was in time to entitle her to share in the dividends, as a creditor free from fraud, though she contested the assignee’s right to the balance of the proceeds of the draft, which she had used for family purposes.</p>