Larrabee v. Talbott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of trover, brought on the 31st March, 1842, by the appellee against the appellant, for divers articles of merchandise and promissory notes, enumerated and described in the declaration. The defendant pleaded not guilty, on which issue was joined. The verdict was for the plaintiff.
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of trover, brought on the 31st March, 1842, by the appellee against the appellant, for divers articles of merchandise and promissory notes, enumerated and described in the declaration. The defendant pleaded not guilty, on which issue was joined. The verdict was for the plaintiff. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff offered evidence to show that Rogers Frick being citizens of Baltimore, applied for the benefit of the insolvent laws of Maryland, to the commissioners of insolvent debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, on the 30th…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
By the sixth section of an act of Assembly of 1816, ch. 221, entitled an act relating to insolvent debtors in the city and county of Baltimore, it is enacted:—
“ That all deeds, conveyances, transfers, assignments or sales of any property, real, personal or mixed, or of any debts, rights, or claims to any creditor or creditors, security or securities which have been or shall hereafter be made, by any person, with a view, or under an expectation of being or becoming an insolvent debtor, and with an intent thereby to give an undue and improper preference to such creditor or creditors, security…
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