Ingraham v. Wheeler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, for 6000 yards of domestic cotton goods, tried at Norwich, January term, 1826, before Peters, J. The plaintiffs claimed title to the property in question, by virtue of an assignment from Andrew Hutchinson; to establish which, they introduced two instruments.
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This was an action of trover, for 6000 yards of domestic cotton goods, tried at Norwich, January term, 1826, before Peters, J. The plaintiffs claimed title to the property in question, by virtue of an assignment from Andrew Hutchinson; to establish which, they introduced two instruments. By the first, dated and executed at North-Providence, in the state of Rhode-Island, the 1st of May, 1824, Hutchinson assigned and transferred to the plaintiffs all his stock in trade, together with all the machinery, yarn and other property, of every kind and nature whatsoever, except household furniture and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrainard, J.
That a man has a right, for honest purposes, to dispose of his own as he may please, is a principle of natural justice; and generally, a man cannot dispose of his property for better or more honest purposes; than the payment of his just debts. So long as a man has a sufficiency to discharge his just debts, and makes an honest disposition of it, for that purpose; or, if he discovers a reluctance on his part to make this disposition among his creditors, so long as they can find, and, by the agency of the law, apply enough to satisfy their demands ; all is well. Here there is no difficulty in…
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