Chipman v. Sabbaton
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decision of a vice chancellor, refusing to grant an attachment against the defendants in a creditor’s bill.
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This was an appeal from a decision of a vice chancellor, refusing to grant an attachment against the defendants in a creditor’s bill. The defendants, upon their examination before the master, upon the usual order of reference to appoint a receiver, and that the defendants assign, transfer, and deliver over to the receiver on oath, under the direction of the master, all their property, equitable interests, choses in action and effects, stated that they had no property, &c. and they therefore refused to execute a formal assignment to the receiver, as they were required to do by the order.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor
decided, that under the order for the appointment of a receiver in such a case, the defendants were bound to execute to the receiver a formal assignment of all their property, equitable interests, &c. as directed by the order, to enable such receiver to test the validity of any assignment or other disposition they might have previously made of their property, and to bring a suit in his own name in cases in which he was legally authorized to sue in that manner, either at law or in equity. But if the defendants swore that they had no property or choses in action, &c. in their…
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