Detroit Stove Works v. Koch

This was an ordinary judgment creditor’s bill, under Sec. 49 of the chancery act of 1872, filed by appellants, and contained special interrogatories to the appellee, Peter Koch, who is a judgment debtor, as to judgments confessed by him, but the bill contained no allegations with respect to, and made no mention even, except in such interrogatories, of the judgments.

In evidence it does appear that the judgments probably might be avoided, as a shift or artifice under the forms of law, to defeat the operation of the voluntary assignment act by effecting an unequal distribution of his estate…