Leach v. Kelsey
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal, by the defendants Eaton and Spicer, from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The action was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of a judgment creditor of the defendant Kelsey, against him and the other defendants Eaton and Spicer, alledging a sale by Kelsey to the other defendants, of his entire property, for the purpose of defrauding the judgment creditor. The referee reported that he found the following facts: First.
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This was an appeal, by the defendants Eaton and Spicer, from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The action was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of a judgment creditor of the defendant Kelsey, against him and the other defendants Eaton and Spicer, alledging a sale by Kelsey to the other defendants, of his entire property, for the purpose of defrauding the judgment creditor. The referee reported that he found the following facts: First. That Lee, Judson & Lee were partners as merchants, in the city of New-York, and about the 17th day of November, 1847, sold to the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Sy the Court, Gridley, J.
This is an action in the nature of a bill in equity, brought by the assignee of a judgment creditor of Kelsey, against him and the two other defendants, Eaton & Spicer, alledging a sale by Kelsey to Eaton & Spicer of his whole property, in fraud of the judgment. A referee has reported in favor of the plaintiff; and a judgment has been entered on the report, from which judgment the defendants Eaton & Spicer have appealed.
The only grounds relied on by the appellants’ counsel are
1st. That the plaintiff can not maintain this action inasmuch as it appears that after the…
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