De Forest v. Bacon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of trespass, for taking and carrying away various articles of dry goods and groceries, usually kept in a country store ; a large, quantity of brushes and shaving boxes, finished and unfinished, in a brush and box factory, together with a quantity of raw materials for making the same j and various other articles of personal property ; formerly owned by Isaac E, Judson.
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THIS was an action of trespass, for taking and carrying away various articles of dry goods and groceries, usually kept in a country store ; a large, quantity of brushes and shaving boxes, finished and unfinished, in a brush and box factory, together with a quantity of raw materials for making the same j and various other articles of personal property ; formerly owned by Isaac E, Judson. The cause was tried at Litchfield⅝ August term, 1818, before Trumbull, Hosmer and Gould, Js. On and before the 3d of December, 1816, Isaac E, Judson owned and possessed the goods specified in the declara lion.…
1Opinion of the Court
Swtft, Ch. .T.
A debtor in failing circumstances may prefer creditors, and may, when necessary and proper, convey his estate to trustees, to he distributed among certain creditors, if done bona fule. In this case, the conveyance is made of specified property to trustees, for the benefit of certain enumerated creditors, who are presumed to have assented, as no dissent was ever expressed. Such a conveyance is warranted by the principles adopted in the case of Hempstead *638v. Starr, 3 Day, 340. which has always been recognized to be law.
It is, however, objected, that by the deed of trust, the…
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