Smith v. Skeary
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin for a quantity of goods; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The following facts were found by a committee: On the 13th day of February, 1877, the defendant, by a writ of attachment in his favor against the Star Tool Company, a joint stock company, located in Middletown in this state, attached the goods described in the plaintiffs’ writ as' the property of the company to secure a claim for work done for the company, and the goods were removed from the…
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Replevin for a quantity of goods; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The following facts were found by a committee: On the 13th day of February, 1877, the defendant, by a writ of attachment in his favor against the Star Tool Company, a joint stock company, located in Middletown in this state, attached the goods described in the plaintiffs’ writ as' the property of the company to secure a claim for work done for the company, and the goods were removed from the warehouse in which they were then stored in Middletown, and which was formerly owned and occupied by the company. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The plaintiff Hotchkiss, and Smith the intestate of the other plaintiff, were stockholders and directors of the Star Tool Company, a joint stock corporation. They were creditors to the corporation to an amount exceeding six thousand dollars, which was justly due and unsecured. On the 15th day of December, 1876, pursuant to a vote of the board of directors, there were transferred to them from the corporation in payment of their claim, personal property, including that embraced in the present suit, of the value of about six thousand dollars. The corporation was in fact insolvent, although it…
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