Goodwin v. Barre Savings Bank & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit, brought by plaintiff as trustee of the bankrupt estate of the Cutler, Storer and Fay Company, to recover the amount collected by defendant; after the bankruptcy, on two contracts for the manufacture of granite monuments. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1915, Washington County, Waterman, J., presiding. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
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Assumpsit, brought by plaintiff as trustee of the bankrupt estate of the Cutler, Storer and Fay Company, to recover the amount collected by defendant; after the bankruptcy, on two contracts for the manufacture of granite monuments. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1915, Washington County, Waterman, J., presiding. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion. The admission in evidence of transactions in regard to other contracts than those upon which a recovery was claimed was error. These other contracts were entirely disconnected…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The plaintiff is trustee in bankruptcy of the Cutler, Storer & Fay Company. He seeks to recover the amount collected by the defendant since the date of the adjudication, August 5, 1914, on two certain monument contracts placed in its hands by the bankrupt prior to that date.
The bankrupt was engaged in the granite business in Barre, and for some years had been making monuments for William Adams & Son, retail dealers in Lexington, Ky. The business was done in this way: Adams & Son would sell a monument to a customer under a written contract, and would engage the bankrupt to manufacture and…
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