Pouliot v. West India Fruit Co.

These suits in equity, which have been consolidated, are brought by judgment creditors against the defendant, a Massachusetts corporation, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 156, § 51, for the appointment of a receiver. An interlocutory decree was entered, appointing one Harold G. Jackson such receiver, from which the defendant appealed. The defendant filed an answer in each case in which it was alleged that the defendant neither owned nor possessed any property real or personal within the jurisdiction of the courts of this Commonwealth, and that “whatever property it owns consists of certain real…