Eastern Fur & Skin Co. v. Sternfeld
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, begun by trustee process against non-residents, upon whom no personal service was made. Among other alleged trustees was the Lynn Storage Warehouse Company. Writ dated October 4, 1917. The answers of the Lynn Storage Warehouse Company to im? terrogatories propounded by the plaintiff, described in the opinion, were filed on January 12, 1918. On April 18, 1918, a petition of the Tradesmen’s National Bank to be admitted as a party claimant, was filed and allowed.
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Contract, begun by trustee process against non-residents, upon whom no personal service was made. Among other alleged trustees was the Lynn Storage Warehouse Company. Writ dated October 4, 1917. The answers of the Lynn Storage Warehouse Company to im? terrogatories propounded by the plaintiff, described in the opinion, were filed on January 12, 1918. On April 18, 1918, a petition of the Tradesmen’s National Bank to be admitted as a party claimant, was filed and allowed. A motion by the claimant, that the trustee Lynn Storage Warehouse Company be discharged, also was filed on April 18, 1918,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
Rugg, C. J. This is an action of contract. The defendants are non-residents, upon whom no personal service has been made. The Lynn Storage Warehouse Company amongst others was summoned as trustee. It filed an answer to the effect that it had no goods, effects or credits of the principal defendants in its hands at the time of the service of the writ. It answered certain interrogatories propounded by the plaintiff. Thereafter the Trades-, men’s National Bank of Philadelphia was admitted as a claimant, in its own right and adversely to the plaintiff, to certain goatskins in the hands of the…
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