Atwood v. Protection Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a writ of scire-facias in a process of foreign at-iii favour of Moses Atwood <§• Co., inhabitants of Pittsburg, in the state of Pennsylvania. The original suit was brought by them, in this state, against Butler and Gore of Springfield, Ohio, alleged to be absent and absconding debtors off the defendants, with whom copies were left.
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This was a writ of scire-facias in a process of foreign at-iii favour of Moses Atwood <§• Co., inhabitants of Pittsburg, in the state of Pennsylvania. The original suit was brought by them, in this state, against Butler and Gore of Springfield, Ohio, alleged to be absent and absconding debtors off the defendants, with whom copies were left. The cause was tried at Hartford, January term, 1842, before Williams, Ch. J. Butler and Gore, being in failing circumstances, had, with a view to their insolvency, before the commencement of the original suit, by an assignment, executed in the state of…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
This assignment is found to be valid according to the laws of the state of Ohio, within which it was executed, and the assignees resided; and it is concluded by the plaintiffs, that it is valid, also, according to the laws of this *559state, unless the “ Act (of 1828) in addition toan Act against Fraudulent Conveyances,” requires it to be lodged for record in the office of some court of probate in this state. But they insist, that that act does require it to be lodged for record; that there is, therefore, a conflict between the laws of Ohio and of this state, as to the mode of transferring said…
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