Laird v. Perry
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appear in chancery. Heard on a special master’s report at the March Term, 1901, Washington County, Watson, Chancellor, presiding. Decree, pro forma, dismissing the bill. The orator appealed. The Perry Manufacturing Co., a partnership consisting of Fred H. Perry, Dean G. Kemp and Andrew J. Howe, and the individual members of the firm, were adjudged insolvent, and the orator was duly elected their assignee.
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Appear in chancery. Heard on a special master’s report at the March Term, 1901, Washington County, Watson, Chancellor, presiding. Decree, pro forma, dismissing the bill. The orator appealed. The Perry Manufacturing Co., a partnership consisting of Fred H. Perry, Dean G. Kemp and Andrew J. Howe, and the individual members of the firm, were adjudged insolvent, and the orator was duly elected their assignee. The bill is brought to determine the orator’s rights in certain real estate then held by Perry and wife, jointly. . After the adjudication of insolvency, Perry and wife mortgaged the land to…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
Before and at the time of the filing of the petition in insolvency the real estate in question was held by the defendants, Fred H. Perry and Edna A. Perry, his wife, as tenants by, entirety. It included their homestead. No claim is made that the property was thus held in fraud of creditors, but it is contended that, exclusive of the right of homestead and the right of survivorship in Edna A., the property passed to die assignee under the assignment to him of the estate of the debtor, Fred H., in the insolvency proceedings.
The assignment conveyed to the assignee all the .estate, real and…
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