Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Illegal Trust Can't Collect. [ARTICLE]

Illegal Trust Can't Collect.

The unusual contention that a trust has no standing in court and cannot collect for goods sold to a voluntary customer waa sustained by Judge Ryan in the Circuit Court at St. Louis. This contention was made by Joseph E. Walsh, a plumber, who admitted that bs had bought voluntarily $240 worth of goods from the Cahill & Swift manufacturing Company. Walsh alleged that this company iu a trust and that he did not have to pay any. more than he would have to pay s gambling debt. The court's decision was in Us favor.