Stevens v. Pierce
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the assignee in insolvency of one Adams, an insolvent debtor, for the conversion of certain articles of personal property. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., who allowed the following bill of exceptions.
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Tort by the assignee in insolvency of one Adams, an insolvent debtor, for the conversion of certain articles of personal property. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., who allowed the following bill of exceptions. There was evidence showing that, in May, 1887, Adams was in business as a grocer, and as such was in possession of a stock of groceries, and several horses and wagons and carriages ; that a part at least of this latter property was used in connection with his business as a groceryman; that the defendant was in his employment, as an assistant book-keeper and salesman, under…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The bill of exceptions in the case at bar is somewhat obscure, and the counsel, according to their respective briefs and arguments, do not concur in their interpretation of it, or in their view of the question intended to be raised. The action was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of Adams, an insolvent debtor, to recover the value of certain personal property, alleged to have been purchased by the defendant in fraud of the insolvency laws of the Commonwealth; and one ground, if not the only one, upon which the plaintiff sought to establish his case, was that the purchase was made in order…
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