Runk v. St. John
New York Supreme Court
THIS action was brought hy the plaintiffs as receivers of the president and managers of the Hew Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, to set aside a conveyance of land from the defendant Ansel St. John to the defendant Thomas P. St. John, as fraudulent and void as against the said Hew Hope and Delaware Bridge Company and their creditors. And the complaint prayed for a discovery and account, and that the defendants might be decreed to convey the lands to the plaintiffs, &c.
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THIS action was brought hy the plaintiffs as receivers of the president and managers of the Hew Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, to set aside a conveyance of land from the defendant Ansel St. John to the defendant Thomas P. St. John, as fraudulent and void as against the said Hew Hope and Delaware Bridge Company and their creditors. And the complaint prayed for a discovery and account, and that the defendants might be decreed to convey the lands to the plaintiffs, &c. The answer of the defendants alleged that in an action commenced in the supreme court of this state, against the Hew Hope and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Clerke, J.
The plaintiffs are receivers of a corporation chartered in the states of Pennsylvania and Hew Jersey, and were appointed under a decree, dissolving the corporation, made hy the court of chancery in the latter state, and were confirmed by an act of the legislature of the former. The defendants’ counsel denies the capacity of receivers, appointed in other states and countries, to sue in the courts of this state. The laws and proceedings of other sovereignties have not, indeed, such absolute and inherent vigor as to be efficacious here under all circumstances. But, in…
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