{ "id": 1449900, "name": "Archer Drug Company v. Kimpel", "name_abbreviation": "Archer Drug Co. v. Kimpel", "decision_date": "1941-03-10", "docket_number": "4-6235", "first_page": "27", "last_page": "30", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "202 Ark. 27" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "150 S.W.2d 605" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "299 S. W. 384", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "175 Ark. 401", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1403434 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/175/0401-01" ] }, { "cite": "181 S. W. 913", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "121 Ark. 302", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1559378 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/121/0302-01" ] }, { "cite": "87 S. W. 633", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "75 Ark. 391", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1502505 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/75/0391-01" ] }, { "cite": "8 S. W. 2d 462", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "177 Ark. 1023", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 8726199 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/177/1023-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 409, "char_count": 5546, "ocr_confidence": 0.523, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.05445877346517113 }, "sha256": "cc03e36f646e16a5c564b7b2df0a989d0cd0d66dd10b87ed5eee1c381f150075", "simhash": "1:64da37f1c96b614b", "word_count": 965 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:41:33.899118+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Archer Drug Company v. Kimpel." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Grieein Smith, C. J.\nWhen the litigation that resulted in this appeal originated in March, 1940, E. B. Kimpel operated the Cash and Carry drug* store in Dermott. His wife, M. E. Kimpel, operated the Kimpel drug store. In July, 1939, unpaid hills for merchandise supplied by appellant to the Kimpel store amounted to $846.83. A promissory note, payable to Archer Drug Company, on demand, was executed by E. B. and M. E. Kimpel. Suit to enforce collection was brought March 13,1940. Two days later an attachment was levied upon goods then remaining in the Kimpel store.\nE. B. Kimpel, as trustee of the estate of B. A. Kimpel, intervened.\nPrayer of the intervention was granted March 27. The stock of goods was moved March 29. An inventory of the Kimpel store taken March 11 by appellees showed stock valuation of $2,733.08. Appellant\u2019s representative took an inventory March 15 and fixed values at $2,040.35. At the same time, another inventory taken for appellees showed' stock of $2,475.\nAccording to E. B. Kimpel\u2019s testimony, he purchased the Kimpel drug store for his wife in 1930. Its actual operation was by Kimpel\u2019s brother-in-law, Murray Shafsky,\nTotal indebtedness of Kimpel and his wife incidental to the drug stores was $7,000, inclusive of the amount due appellant. A $4,000 loan on property owned by. the B. A. Kimpel estate was procured from Dermott State Bank. With from $1,500 to $1,600 of this fund appellees composed their obligations with creditors at 25 per cent., with the exception of \u201cforty some odd dollars\u201d and $68 in goods returned. No part of the Archer Drug Company note was paid. E. B. Kimpel testified that his mother was living when the $4,000 loan was made; that his wife borrowed the money from his mother, and had paid it back.\nThe Cash and Carry drug store\u2019s bank account was in the name of Murray 'Shafsky. The Kimpel drug store had its own bank account. Checks were signed by Murray Shafsky or W. B. Perry.\nOn cross-examination of E. B. Kimpel there is the following:\n\u201cQ. You told us a while ago that merchandise was t\u00e1ken from the Kimpel drug store over to the Cash and Carry? A. Yes, sir. Q. How much; rather, how long did that continue? A. When Mr. Perry would run out of something or get a call for something he did not have. But, naturally, it was properly charged. Q. Do you know how much stock was put in there from the Kimpel drug store? A. I think about $800 worth.\u201d\nThe court erred in dissolving the attachment. Section 531 of Pope\u2019s Digest gives the plaintiff in a civil action the right to attach where the defendant has sold, conveyed or otherwise disposed of his property, or suffered or permitted it to be sold, with the fraudulent intent to cheat, hinder, or delay creditors; or where the defendant is about to sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of his or her property with fraudulent intent in respect of creditors.\nE. B. Kimpel\u2019s testimony sustains the conclusion that he intended his creditors should believe him insolvent. He will not. now be heard to say that possession of certain lots, an automobile, and an interest in his mother\u2019s estate (which he testified had been absorbed by his sisters) can change the status. Indeed, we do not understand that it is contended he was not insolvent.\nIt must also be assumed that in taking merchandise from the Kimpel store and placing it in the Cash store, and in depositing sales receipts in the name of a third party \u2014 Shafsky\u2014the natural consequences of such transactions were intended. Nor may goods be converted into money in the regular course of business by an insolvent debtor for the fraudulent purpose of defeating creditors.\nThere is no substantial evidence tending to prove consent by appellant\u2019s agent that the goods be moved. The attempt to make this showing reflects merely an incident in negotiations whereby appellant displayed toleration without engaging in conduct the legal effect of which would have been to acquiesce in a transaction with knowledge of its extent and purpose.\nThe judgment is reversed, with directions to sustain the attachment.\nGrounds of attachment alleged were that the Kimpels had sold, conveyed, or otherwise disposed of their property, or suffered or permitted it to be sold, with the fraudulent intent to cheat, hinder, or delay their creditors. Also, that the defendants were about to sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of their property with such fraudulent intent.\nThe intervention alleged that the attached goods were in a building owned by the B. A. Kimpel estate; that the building had recently heen sold to L. L. Jones, of McGehee, and that in order to effectuate the sale the personal property should he moved to another location.\nKimpel testified that he opened the Cash and Carry store \u201cabout the 20th of June or July- \u2014 I think the 20th of June.\u201d The reference must have heen to 1939.\nPerry (at time of trial a rural mail carrier) had been employed by the Kimpel drug store \u201cas a druggist\u201d for nine or ten years.\nIn explaining who was meant by \u201cwe,\u201d E. P. Kimpel testified: \u201cTo be frank, my wife and I. What\u2019s hers is mine and what\u2019s mine is hers.\u201d\nMetcalf v. Jelks, 177 Ark. 1023, 8 S. W. 2d 462. See, also, Farris v. Gross, 75 Ark. 391, 87 S. W. 633, 5 Ann. Cas. 616; Arkansas National Bank v. Stuckey, 121 Ark. 302, 181 S. W. 913; Federal Land Bank v. Wright, 175 Ark. 401, 299 S. W. 384.", "type": "majority", "author": "Grieein Smith, C. J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Murphy \u2022& Murphy and Bose, Loughborough, Dobyns (& House, for appellant.", "Golden, Golden & Gibson, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Archer Drug Company v. Kimpel.\n4-6235\n150 S. W. 2d 605\nOpinion delivered March 10, 1941.\nMurphy \u2022& Murphy and Bose, Loughborough, Dobyns (& House, for appellant.\nGolden, Golden & Gibson, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0027-01", "first_page_order": 45, "last_page_order": 48 }