Journeay v. Brown
Supreme Court of New Jersey
The certiorari in this ease brings up for review a Certain order and proceedings, made and had before one of tlie justices of the Supreme Court, on a suit in the Hudson Circuit, wherein Albert Journeay, Jr., Benjamin Lynes, and William W. Young were plaintiffs, and Thomas C. Brown and Henry Demarest were defendants.
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The certiorari in this ease brings up for review a Certain order and proceedings, made and had before one of tlie justices of the Supreme Court, on a suit in the Hudson Circuit, wherein Albert Journeay, Jr., Benjamin Lynes, and William W. Young were plaintiffs, and Thomas C. Brown and Henry Demarest were defendants. The following facts appear upon an inspection of the return; 1. On the 18tli October, 1854, Brown and Demarest made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Their assets were stated at $12,400; debts, $26,000. On the. day following, Hillyard, Hays and Hopkins, partners,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Potts, J.
The reasons assigned by the plaintiffs in certiorari for the reversal of the order appointing a receiver, and adjudging that said plaintiffs in certiorari, and that John J. Brown for them, had, since the issuing of the execution, things in action, money and property, held in trust for them, are—
1. That the said plaintiffs in certiorari, or the said John J. Brown for them, did not, at the time of issuing the execution on which said proceedings are founded, have any property, money, or things in action, due to them or held in trust for them,…
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