Myers v. . Becker
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 14, 1883, which reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury, and which ordered judgment for defendant.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 14, 1883, which reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury, and which ordered judgment for defendant. (Reported below, 29 Hun, 567.) This was an action upon a bail bond, executed by the defendant to secure the jail liberties to one Alpheus C. Beckwith, a person imprisoned under a precept issued in pursuance of an order of the court for alleged contempt, i Prior to May, 1878, Pierce and Haggerty made…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The judgment in the action of Hawley et al. v. Pierce et al. was not final. It adjudged that the assignment made by defendants Pierce and Haggerty to defendant Beck-with was fraudulent as against the creditors of the assignors, and that it was null and void ; that the assignee should account for the assigned property which came into his hands which was found to be of the value of $3,000 ; that a receiver should be appointed of the property of the assignors in their hands or in the hand's of their assignee ; that from the proceeds of such property the receiver should first pay the costs of…
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