Weeks v. Prescott
Supreme Court of Vermont
This case was heard at the June Term, 1879. Judgment was rendered on the following report, Ross, J., presiding: referee’s report. For many years previous to May, 1875, G. H. and J. M. Weeks had been extensively engaged as partners in selling goods and buying farm produce, keeping on sale such goods as are usually kept in country stores.
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This case was heard at the June Term, 1879. Judgment was rendered on the following report, Ross, J., presiding: referee’s report. For many years previous to May, 1875, G. H. and J. M. Weeks had been extensively engaged as partners in selling goods and buying farm produce, keeping on sale such goods as are usually kept in country stores. They commenced trading at what is called Lyndon Corner, and continued to do business in a store there until said May, 1875. More recently, and previous to said last mentioned time, they extended their business, and added to it a store and goods at Lyndonville,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
It is claimed that the goods sought to be recovered for in this action were purchased by B. F. Weeks at a judicial *70sale, and hence that no change of possession was required, to protect them from attachment by the creditors of the former owners. The U. S. statute, approved June 22, 1874, amendatory of the bankruptcy act of 1867, under which the composition proceedings, referred to in the report, were instituted, and carried on, provides that in all cases of bankruptcy, then or to be thereafter pending, by or against any person, whether an…
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