Jaquith v. Davenport
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
These are three actions brought by an assignee in insolvency of a firm made up of one Davis and one Hathaway, to recover for goods sold and payments made in violation of the insolvency laws. The insolvency petition was an involuntary one, and was originally filed on April 25, 1896, against Davis alone. It afterwards was amended to include the partnership, and the assignee was appointed assignee of the joint and separate estates of both partners.
There was a prior involuntary petition against Hathaway in Bristol County. But that does not enter into the matters on which the decision here…
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