Shotwell v. . Dixon
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered November 27, 1897, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term without a jury, and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered November 27, 1897, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term without a jury, and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material are stated in the opinion. The transfers of property, the conversion of assets into money, or into checks of Littauer Brothers, and the transfers of those checks to the favored creditors, are part of the general assignment made with the intent of the assignors to secure…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin, L
For some years anterior to December 31,1895, the defendants Baltie H. Dixon and George E. Wilkins were, as copartners, engaged in the manufacture of gloves and mittens under the firm name of Dixon & Wilkins. On the twenty-eighth of that month they ascertained that the firm was insolvent. On Monday, the thirtieth, they made and executed a large number of sales and transfers of their property, the proceeds of which were appropriated chiefly to the payment of the debts of the firm. There may have been one or more instances where a. debt, or a portion of a debt, of one of the individual…
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