Williams & Thomas Co. v. Preslo

Citations

• 84 Ohio St. (N.S.) 328

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional provisions requiring that laws — Regulating property rights — Shall operate generally — Extend to rules of evidence, when — Invalidity of Btdk Sale Act of April 30, 1908.</p> <p>1. The provisions of the constitution which require that laws regulating rights in property shall operate generally and equally extend to statutes which prescribe the presumptions and rules of evidence by which those rights are enforced.</p> <p>2. The act of April 30, 1908 (99 O’. L., 241), to render presumptively fraudulent sales in bulk of stocks of merchandise unless the seller shall, not less than seven days before the transfer, file with the recorder of the county a notice of his intention to make such sale, is repugnant to the first article of the constitution, and therefore void. (Miller v. Crawford et al., 70 Ohio St., 207, approved and followed.)</p>