Evarts v. Killingworth Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on promissory notes. The officer, who served the writ, stated, in his return, that he attached all the right, title and interest, of the Killingworth Manufacturing Company, in certain real estate, particularly described, and that he left a true and attested copy ot the writ, with his doings thereon endorsed, in the hands of Nathan Griswold, president and director of said Killingworth Manufacturing Company, and within his dwelling-house in Killingworth; and…
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This was an action on promissory notes. The officer, who served the writ, stated, in his return, that he attached all the right, title and interest, of the Killingworth Manufacturing Company, in certain real estate, particularly described, and that he left a true and attested copy ot the writ, with his doings thereon endorsed, in the hands of Nathan Griswold, president and director of said Killingworth Manufacturing Company, and within his dwelling-house in Killingworth; and on the same day, he left a true and attested copy of the writ, in the hands of William C. Nettleton, director and…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
Several questions have been discussed in this case, which we have no occasion to decide ; for in one particular, we all agree, that the plea in abatement is bad, and must be overruled.
The superior court found, that the acts of said manufacturing company and its officers, five days only before the service of the plaintiff’s writ, were done to “ prevent the attachment, of the company’s properly,'’ claimed to be fraudulently conveyed away from their creditors. With this finding, it is impossible to allow those acts to possess any efficacy whatever. If such a flimsy device were to receive the…
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