Standard Furniture Co. v. Van Alstine

Citations

• 31 Wash. 499
• 72 P. 119
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 658

Syllabus

<p>SALES-VOID CONTRACT-BIGHT OF POSSESSION-ATTACHMENT.</p> <p>The fact that a contract for the sale of goods for an immoral purpose was unenforcible would not entitle an attaching creditor of the vendee to hold them as against the vendor, to whom the vendee had surrendered all right and title in the goods.</p> <p>SAME-JUDGMENT FOR WRONGFUL REPLEVIN-SATISFACTION.</p> <p>A judgment awarding the return of goods or the recovery of their value on account of a wrongful replevy must he deemed satisfied and therefore unenforcible where it appears that the judgment is in favor of an attaching creditor who took the goods under an illegal writ of attachment which was reversed on appeal, and that the attachment debtor had subsequently surrendered all right in the replevied goods to the party who had sued out the writ of replevin.</p> <p>SAME-ESTOPPEL TO ASSERT COMMUNITY INTEREST.</p> <p>Where a husband procures an attachment sale of goods as the separate property of his wife, he is 'estopped from setting up a comrrfunity interest therein as against one subsequently acquiring title through the wife.</p>