Bullard v. Hicks
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trustee Process. The disclosures in this case were the same as in the case in favor of Samuel B. Hurlburt against the same defendants and the same trustees, ante page 193, except that the trustees H. R. & J. J. Beardsley now disclosed that they had been adjudged trustees in that suit for the whole amount in their hands, viz. 8130, and that the said sum was insufficient to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim in that suit. , The county court rendered judgment against the trustees,…
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Trustee Process. The disclosures in this case were the same as in the case in favor of Samuel B. Hurlburt against the same defendants and the same trustees, ante page 193, except that the trustees H. R. & J. J. Beardsley now disclosed that they had been adjudged trustees in that suit for the whole amount in their hands, viz. 8130, and that the said sum was insufficient to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim in that suit. , The county court rendered judgment against the trustees, upon their disclosures; to which decision the trustees excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
The principal questions in this case have been decided in the case in favor of Hurlburt against the same defendants and their trustees. But with respect to the Messrs. Beardsley there is this difference, that the amount disclosed by them is not sufficient to pay the amount for which Hurlburt recovered judgment *199against them in that suit, the writ in which was served prior to the service of the writ in this case. They cannot, therefore, be called upon by this plaintiff, only on the contingency that Hurlburt should be able to collect the…
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