Seal v. Duffy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. Dec. 15. An execution on personal property having been issued against Taylor & Co. at the suit of Duffy, the proceeds of the sale were paid into court, and feigned issues directed between Seal, the assignee, and several of the creditors of the firm, on the trial of which, exceptions were taken to the charge of his honour Findlay3 J., which were argued here.
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In error from the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. Dec. 15. An execution on personal property having been issued against Taylor & Co. at the suit of Duffy, the proceeds of the sale were paid into court, and feigned issues directed between Seal, the assignee, and several of the creditors of the firm, on the trial of which, exceptions were taken to the charge of his honour Findlay3 J., which were argued here. On the 18th June, the same day on which the execution of Duffy issued, Taylor & Co. executed a general assignment to M. Taylor in trust for creditors generally,…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
Though numerous issues were asked for by the parties and directed by the court, some of them being rather issues in law, for the court, than of fact for the jury; and multifarious points presented for the opinion of the judge who tried these issues, there appear to be, in truth, but two principal questions which called for decision. The first of these is settled by the verdict rendered in Seal v. Duffy, finding the judgment recovered by Duffy against Taylor and Johnson, the assignors, to be fraudulent; not only against the other execution creditors, but against the defendants themselves. Of…
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