Knower v. Cadden Clothing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Scire Facias upon a process of foreign attachment in which the defendant company was garnisheed by the plaintiffs as the debtor of Leopold Levy and as having his goods in its possession; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Phelps, J. Upon the trial the plaintiffs offered evidence to prove, and claimed to have proved, that Leopold Levy, on July 1st, 1885, opened a store on the corner of Canal and Lispenard streets in the city of New…
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Scire Facias upon a process of foreign attachment in which the defendant company was garnisheed by the plaintiffs as the debtor of Leopold Levy and as having his goods in its possession; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Phelps, J. Upon the trial the plaintiffs offered evidence to prove, and claimed to have proved, that Leopold Levy, on July 1st, 1885, opened a store on the corner of Canal and Lispenard streets in the city of New York; that he was a jobber in gentlemen’s and ladies’ furnishing goods ; that all his goods were new and of these…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
It was the claim of the plaintiffs that Leopold Levy was their debtor, and that with the intent to defraud his creditors he transferred a portion of his personal property to the defendant, the Cadden Clothing Company, a corporation, through the agency of F. J. Rosenberg, its president, which received and retained possession of the property, having either actual knowledge or reasonable means of knowledge that the transfer by Levy was with such fraudulent intent.
The defendant claimed that Rosenberg, as an individual, was a creditor of Levy; that the property was delivered by Levy to Rosenberg…
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- Carroll v. HaywardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
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- Hawes v. MooneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1872
- Owen v. DixonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1846
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