Andrews v. . Durant
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Supreme Court. The action was in the nature of trover to recover the value of a barge. The plaintiffs claimed title under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, made by Bridger & Bishop, who were ship carpenters, and had built the barge under a contract for that purpose with the defendants.
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Appeal from the Supreme Court. The action was in the nature of trover to recover the value of a barge. The plaintiffs claimed title under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, made by Bridger & Bishop, who were ship carpenters, and had built the barge under a contract for that purpose with the defendants. Bridger & Bishop had commenced the construction of the barge under that contract; had received $3,000 of the $5,000 which was to be paid as purchase money, and the barge, in its unfinished state, was levied on by the sheriff of Ulster, by virtue of several executions against…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Ch. J.
The levy of the sheriff of Ulster on the barge in question, by virtue of executions against Bridger & Bishop, while it transferred the possession of the barge and vested a special property in the sheriff, did not diminish or at all affect the right of Bridger & Bishop, the general owners, to sell and dispose of it, subject to the rights acquired by and incident to the levy. Their assignment, therefore, to the plaintiffs, although it may have been fraudulent as to creditors, and although it was subsequent, in point of time, to the levy, was valid and effectual between the…
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