Pratt v. Adams
New York Court of Chancery
This case came before the chancellor upon various exceptions which had been taken, by different creditors, to the report of the master as to the several debts due and owing by the defendant B. Rathbun, and as to the classes in which debts were entitled to be placed under the assignment which he had made to the complainants for the benefit of creditors.
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This case came before the chancellor upon various exceptions which had been taken, by different creditors, to the report of the master as to the several debts due and owing by the defendant B. Rathbun, and as to the classes in which debts were entitled to be placed under the assignment which he had made to the complainants for the benefit of creditors. The assignment was executed at Buffalo, where Rathbun and his assignees then resided, on the first of August, 1836. And he thereby conveyed all his property and effects to the complainants, in trust, to convert the same into money, and to apply…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The Granville Alexandrian Society produced and proved before the master eight drafts, drawn by B. Rathbun on H. Janes, and accepted by the latter for the accommodation of the drawer. These drafts were all discounted at the Granville Bank, and were owned by the society previous to the assignment, and were afterwards protested for non-payment, and due notice thereof was given to the drawer, endorsers, &c. The three first drafts were accepted by Janes before the assignment, and the other five on the third of August, 1836, before he heard of the assignment. The whole of the drafts…
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