Lawrence v. Batcheller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, by the assignees in insolvency of M. Frank Paige, for money had and received. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: Paige, for more than a year prior to January 30, 1879, was a member of a limited partnership duly formed under the laws of this Commonwealth, and doing business at Boston, under the firm name of M. Frank Paige, of which…
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Contract, by the assignees in insolvency of M. Frank Paige, for money had and received. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: Paige, for more than a year prior to January 30, 1879, was a member of a limited partnership duly formed under the laws of this Commonwealth, and doing business at Boston, under the firm name of M. Frank Paige, of which firm he was the general partner, and Laura A. Whitcher was the special partner. In October 1878, the firm and Paige were…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
As the attachments were made prior to the time when the assignment in insolvency took effect, and, having been made in other States, were not dissolved by the proceedings in insolvency in this Commonwealth, and were valid by the laws of the States respectively in which .they were made, they must prevail over the assignment, unless the statutes of the Commonwealth make a title so acquired by a citizen of the Commonwealth void or voidable at the election of the assignees in insolvency.
The case at bar is not within the provisions of the Gen. Sts. e. 118, § 89, for, without considering whether…
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