Kendall v. McClure Coke Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 539, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Lebanon Co., Equity Docket, 1896, No. 5, dismissing bill in equity. Bill in equity by assignees for the benefit of creditors to restrain a creditor from tbe prosecution of suits in Georgia and Florida to subject property to the payment of his debt. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 539, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Lebanon Co., Equity Docket, 1896, No. 5, dismissing bill in equity. Bill in equity by assignees for the benefit of creditors to restrain a creditor from tbe prosecution of suits in Georgia and Florida to subject property to the payment of his debt. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court below in an opinion by Ehbgood, P. J., holding that any property which has not passed by the assignment to the as signee, can be subjected by any creditor of the assignor, domestic or otherwise, to the payment of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The plaintiffs are assignees of Robert H. Coleman, who on *3August 8, 1893, made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. An appraisement of all the assigned estate was filed in Lebanon county on December 27, 1893; it amounted to nearly three millions of dollars, and embraced all the property of assignor in Pennsylvania, also considerable real estate and personal property in Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida. The defendant, the McClure Coke Company, is a Pennsylvania corporation, and at the date of the assignment was a creditor of the assignor in…
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