Parsons v. Topliff

This is an action, brought by. the assignee in bankruptcy of George and Philo Pomeroy, to recover the value of certain personal property, upon the ground that it was transferred by the bankrupts to the defendant in fraud of the provisions of the bankrupt law.

It appeared that more than four months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, two of the creditors of the bankrupts brought suits against them and attached the property in question. On the same day on which the attachments were severally made, the defendant receipted for the property attached, in the usual form, agreeing to keep…