Winchester & Partridge Manufacturing Co. v. Creary

Citations

• 116 U.S. 161
• 6 S. Ct. 369
• 29 L. Ed. 591
• 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1906

Syllabus

<p>The declarations of a vendor of personal property made to a third party after sale and delivery of the property to the vendee, are not admissible in an action by the vendee against an officer seizing it on a writ of attachment as the property of the vendor, in order to show/fraud, or conspiracy to defraud, in the sale.</p> <p>A person whom a purchaser of personal property from a debtor in failing circumstances puts into possession of the property after the sale as his’agent to manage it, cannot afterwards make declarations respecting the character of the sale, which can be received in evidence against the vendor in proceedings in which the sale is crtestioned as made in bad faith, or with intent on the part of the vendor and vendee to hinder and delay the .vendor’s .creditors.</p>