Dutton v. Connecticut Bank
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery to obtain the avails of eight shares of the stock of the Hartford Bank. On the 31st of March, 1837, Joseph Wood, Esq., then of Bridgeport, in this state, being in failing circumstances, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed of assignment, under seal, of all his estate, real and personal, within this state, except money, and such property as is by law exempt from being taken on execution, in trust for the benefit of his creditors, pursuant…
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This was a bill in chancery to obtain the avails of eight shares of the stock of the Hartford Bank. On the 31st of March, 1837, Joseph Wood, Esq., then of Bridgeport, in this state, being in failing circumstances, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed of assignment, under seal, of all his estate, real and personal, within this state, except money, and such property as is by law exempt from being taken on execution, in trust for the benefit of his creditors, pursuant to the provisions of the statute of 1828, regarding fraudulent conveyances. This assignment was delivered into the…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
The only question now submitted to our consideration, is, whether the plaintiff is entitled to the relief prayed for in the bill.
The defendants brought their suit against Joseph Wood, attached eight shares of the capital stock of the Hartford Bank, standing in his name upon the books of the bank, and having *497obtained iugdment against him, caused those shares to be , , soid upon tneir execution. The plamtiti claims to the avails arising from that sale. He admits, that the stock was Originally the property of Wood, but claims it bv virtue c J 1 nni ■ J ■ , 1 f l j j or an assignment. 1 his…
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