Safford v. Burgess
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont. [This was a proceeding by James O. Saf-ford & Co. against John J. Burgess, assignee of R. S. Read.]
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Justice.
The findings of fact by Judge Shipman, and his conclusions of law in this case, are so satisfactory in their general character as to require little to be said in relation to them. The agreement under which the hides were tanned was a common one, and vested the title to ■the property purchased in Safford & Co. The assignee takes the property of the bankrupt, as an attaching creditor would take it, that is, subject to all legal claims upon it. The case is not that of a bona fide purchaser, whose rights are in many cases superior to those of any ordinary creditor.
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