Platt v. Mead
District Court, S.D. New York
In Bankruptcy. Demurrer to amended bill of complaint for want of equity.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, D. J.
The plaintiff is assignee in bankruptcy of Abraham Mead, who was adjudicated a bankrupt, on petition of his creditors, on June 29, 1878. The assignee was chosen and the statutory assignment of the bankrupt’s effects executed to him on September 6, 1878. On the twenty-fourth of August, 1880, this suit was brought for the purpose of reaching certain real estate, in this city, purchased by the bankrupt in 1867, with his own means, the title to which was taken in .the name of his wife, the defendant Sarah J. Mead, together with the improvements afterwards made thereon by the bankrupt,…
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