Bullitt, Miller & Co. v. Taylor & Richardson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. This bill was filed on the 8th day of December, 1856, by Bullitt, Hiller & Co., Murry, Miller & Co., and Robert Richards, against Taylor & Richardson, Sarah Ann Taylor (wife of the said defendant Taylor), and-- Reber, the trustee in the deed of .'trust sought to be annulled.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. This bill was filed on the 8th day of December, 1856, by Bullitt, Hiller & Co., Murry, Miller & Co., and Robert Richards, against Taylor & Richardson, Sarah Ann Taylor (wife of the said defendant Taylor), and-- Reber, the trustee in the deed of .'trust sought to be annulled. The bill, in substance, charges that, about the 1st day of February, A.D. 1852, the defendants, Taylor & Richardson, entered into and formed a copartnership, for the purpose of carrying on “ a general mercantile and grocery business,” in the…
1Dissent
HaNDY, J.,
dissented, as follows.
While I agree with the conclusion stated in the opinion of the court upon the demurrer to the bill in this case, I am constrained to dissent from some of the views stated in the opinion.
The bill alleges that on the 12th February, 1852, the defendant Taylor, secretly and with the intent to defraud his then creditors, and also with the view and intention of contracting other debts, with the complainants and others, for large amounts, and to defraud them, and without the knowledge of the defendant Richardson, his partner in business, and without any consideration…
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