Adams v. Young
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on October 17, 1905, by the trustee in bankruptcy of E. M. Wheeler and Company, Incorporated, alleging that that corporation before it was adjudged a bankrupt had undertaken to' convey in bulk to the defendants its stock of drugs located in its store on Beacon Street in Brookline, “ the same being the entire stock in trade of ” the corporation, and that the sale and conveyance were void as against the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on October 17, 1905, by the trustee in bankruptcy of E. M. Wheeler and Company, Incorporated, alleging that that corporation before it was adjudged a bankrupt had undertaken to' convey in bulk to the defendants its stock of drugs located in its store on Beacon Street in Brookline, “ the same being the entire stock in trade of ” the corporation, and that the sale and conveyance were void as against the corporation’s creditors and the plaintiff because the requirements of St. 1903, c. 415, were not complied with. The case was…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff’s first exception, to the master’s ruling that the plaintiff was entitled to no relief against the defendant, was well taken as an abstract proposition. As stated in Clark v. Seagraves, 186 Mass. 430, 435, a master’s duty is to find the facts, and it is for the court to say upon these facts whether any and what relief should be given. But as all the facts are reported by the master, and the only question now raised is as to the rights of the plaintiff upon these facts, this exception becomes really immaterial and need not be considered.
The sale made by the Wheeler Company to the…
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