Robinson's Appeal From Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the disallowance of a claim by commissioners on the insolvent estate of a partnership known as the Robinson Lead Company; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court before Robinson, J. The following facts were found by the court.
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Appeal from the disallowance of a claim by commissioners on the insolvent estate of a partnership known as the Robinson Lead Company; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court before Robinson, J. The following facts were found by the court. On January 1st, 1890, the appellant- delivered to the partnership possession of the stock and merchandise in his plumber’s store in Hartford, and they signed and gave him a paper of that date, acknowledging that they had “received” the same from him, “ as fully described in an inventory of the same date,” and then proceeding as…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The rights of the parties depend on the effect of the instrument under which possession of the stock and merchandise in the appellant’s store was received by the insolvents. Construed as a whole, it amounts substantially to a conditional sale, on credit, for $8,000, by the terms of which the absolute title was not to pass to them until full performance of the obligation which they assumed, but by which they were invested with the power to transfer an absolute title to all or any part of the goods to third parties, with whom they might deal in the ordinary course of their business as plumbers.…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Crompton v. BeachSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1892
- Lewis v. McCabeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881
- Newhall v. KingsburyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- Appleton v. Norwalk Library Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
- Beach's Appeal from CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
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