Kelso v. American Investment & Improvement Co.
Citations
- 50 Wash. 381
- 97 P. 294
- 1908 Wash. LEXIS 742
Syllabus
<p>Corporations — Insolvency — Receivers — Fraudulent Conveyances. A receiver is properly appointed for an insolvent corporation, at the suit of creditors, and the complaint states a cause of action, where it appears that it was, from its inception, a fraudulent scheme on the part of its promoter, that it fraudulently assumed to make sales of property to the plaintiffs without having any title, and that it was without any assets and had conveyed to its promoter and chief stockholder all its property with intent to defraud its creditors.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- same; testimony that offense occurred \on the road between Sharpe's Ferry and Ocala about one mile west of the bridge\
- when alleging prior convictions in an indictment, conviction must include adjudication by the court
- “The word ‘convicted’ as used in the indictment against the defendant, under the statute [for unlawful possession of liquor] ... means that the defendant had been formally adjudged to be guilty by the county judge’s court of Marion County.”
- “The word ‘convicted’ as used in the indictment against the defendant, under the statute [for unlawful possession of liquor] ... means that the defendant had been formally adjudged to be guilty by the county judge’s court of Marion County.”
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Judges: Hadley
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