Thompson v. Fairbanks
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE' STATE' OF VERMONT. The plaintiff in error, by this writ, seeks to review á judgment of the Supreme Court of the State, of Vermont in favor of the defendant in error. 75 Vermont, 361. The facts upon which the judgment rests.are as follows: : Oh the thirtieth day of June, 1900, Herbert E. Moore, of St. Johnsbury, in the State' of Vermont, filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the District of…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE' STATE' OF VERMONT. The plaintiff in error, by this writ, seeks to review á judgment of the Supreme Court of the State, of Vermont in favor of the defendant in error. 75 Vermont, 361. The facts upon which the judgment rests.are as follows: : Oh the thirtieth day of June, 1900, Herbert E. Moore, of St. Johnsbury, in the State' of Vermont, filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, and on the third day of .July, 1900, Moore was by the court duly adjudged a bankrupt, and on the fifteenth of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mb. Justice Peckham,
after .making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a contest between a trustee in bankruptcy representing the creditors of the bankrupt, and the defendant, the mortgagee in a chattel mortgage dated and executed April 15, 1891, and duly recorded April 18 of that year. The defendant has paid some $500 of the indebtedness of the bankrupt for which defendant was liable as endorser on a note, and he remains liable to pay the note of-$2,510.75, held by the-Pas-sumpsic Savings Bank, which was signed by him as surety.
The property taken…
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