Davis v. Bonney
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Norfolk city, rendered June 20th, 1892, in a suit in equity .wherein M. L. T. Davis & Co., appellants here, were plaintiffs, and C. L. Bonney and others were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Norfolk city, rendered June 20th, 1892, in a suit in equity .wherein M. L. T. Davis & Co., appellants here, were plaintiffs, and C. L. Bonney and others were defendants. The bill was a creditor’s bill to set aside, on the ground of fraud, a certain deed made by Bonney, on the 28th of April, 1890, to B. A. Johnson, trustee, and to subject the property thereby conveyed to the satisfaction of the plaintiffs’ claim against the late co-partnership of Bonney & Malborn. The plaintiffs were creditors at large of the firm, and the principal question here was,…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
(after stating the case,) delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a creditors’ spit, in which the bill was filed by the appellants, M. L. T. Davis & Co., creditors at large of the firm of Bonney & Malborn. It appears from the record that on the 28th of March, 1890, the members of the firm gave notice, by publication in a newspaper, of the dissolution of the firm, and that Bonney -had assumed all of its indebtedness. ' On the 28th of the following month Bonney conveyed to Johnson, trustee, all the assets of the late co-partnership, to secure certain of his individual debts. The…
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