Deshon v. Wood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, under the Pub. Sts c. 151, § 3, by an assignee in insolvency, to recover certain bonds as transferred in fraud of creditors. Hearing before Holmes, J., who made a decree that the plaintiff was entitled to the bonds as against the first-named defendant, subject to the liens of certain claimants, of whom the other defendant was one; and the first-named defendant appealed to the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, under the Pub. Sts c. 151, § 3, by an assignee in insolvency, to recover certain bonds as transferred in fraud of creditors. Hearing before Holmes, J., who made a decree that the plaintiff was entitled to the bonds as against the first-named defendant, subject to the liens of certain claimants, of whom the other defendant was one; and the first-named defendant appealed to the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in March, 1888, and after-wards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The bill is brought by the assignee in insolvency of John F. Wood, to recover possession of one hundred and eighty bonds of the Exeter Wood Pulp Company, which belonged to Wood and were delivered by him to the defendant, Alice C. Wood ; and the only question is whether the transfer to her was valid as against the plaintiff. The evidence upon which the plaintiff relies tends to prove that, about the first of June, 1884, an engagement of marriage was entered into between John F. Wood and the defendant Alice C. Wood, then Mrs. *133Soule, and at the same time he promised to give her the bonds as a…
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