Richards v. Manson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed February 12,1868, against the assignees of the joint and separate estates in insolvency of John Felton and George Jacques, both of Boston, lately copartners as distillers under the firm of John Felton & Company; alleging that the proceedings in insolvency which resulted in the assignment to the defendants were begun in the court of insolvency for Suffolk, upon the petition of the insolvents, on February 3, 1859 ; that the plaintiff proved a debt of…
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Bill in equity, filed February 12,1868, against the assignees of the joint and separate estates in insolvency of John Felton and George Jacques, both of Boston, lately copartners as distillers under the firm of John Felton & Company; alleging that the proceedings in insolvency which resulted in the assignment to the defendants were begun in the court of insolvency for Suffolk, upon the petition of the insolvents, on February 3, 1859 ; that the plaintiff proved a debt of $10,735 against the separate estate of Felton; that Felton, at the date of said petition, was entitled to the conveyance, as…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The plaintiff, as creditor of the separate estate of John Felton, asks that the defendants, assignees of the joint and separate estates of the partnership of John Felton & Company, may be directed to appropriate the net proceeds of certain lands in Chicago, held by them as assignees, first towards the payment of the separate debts which have been proved against the separate estate of John Felton, because such proceeds, it is alleged, are assets of his separate estate.
*484The business of the firm, from the time of its formation to the insolvency, was that of distillers, and was carried on in…
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