Mead v. Dayton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
£ *34 J *Trover. The plaintiff claimed title to the property in question as the trustee in insolvency of one Joshua Sands. The defendant claimed title under a purchase from the insolvent, a short.time before his assignment in insolvency. The case was tried on the general issue closed to the court, and the following facts were specially found by the court.
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£ *34 J *Trover. The plaintiff claimed title to the property in question as the trustee in insolvency of one Joshua Sands. The defendant claimed title under a purchase from the insolvent, a short.time before his assignment in insolvency. The case was tried on the general issue closed to the court, and the following facts were specially found by the court. The defendant, at the time of the purchase of the property, was and had long been a citizen and resident of the state of New York, and the said Sands, a citizen and resident of the state of Connecticut, the latter living near the line which…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
Several questions have been made in this case which we need not at length consider; for the main one, if decided for the defendant, as we think it must be, is decisive of the case, and must be fatal- to the title of the plaintiff as assignee of Joshua Sands.
On the 19th day of October, 1857, the defendant, a resident of the state of New York, occupying a farm near the line of the state, came into Connecticut to obtain payment of a debt due from said Sands. It appears from the motion, that the negotiation between the parties as to the mode of paying the defendant was commenced in Connecticut,…
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