Colbert v. Sutton
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill to set aside a sale of personal property by a judgment debtor, and to subject the property to payment of judgment.—The facts and questions presented are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The material facts in this case seem to he that Sutton, one of the defendants, claimed right, title •and interest in stalls 15,17, 47, 49, 68, and 70 in the city market-house of Wilmington, together with all stock representing said stalls.
He had paid upon each share of stock $20, owning then only stalls 15,17, 47, and 49. hi umbers 68 and 70 lie bought, .after the building of the city market-house, for $535.
Sutton went to Carpenter on the morning of the 7th of December, 1876, and told him that he did not know how the ■suit of the complainant against him, then being tried in the…
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