Gabriel Wood, in Error v. William Owings and Job Smith, Assignees of William Robb, a Bankrupt
Supreme Court of the United States
Error from the fourth circuit court sitting at Baltimore. This was an action on the case, for money had and received by Wood to the use of Robb, the bankrupt. Judgment below was entered by consent, subject to the opinion of the court on a case stating the following facts, viz.
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Error from the fourth circuit court sitting at Baltimore. This was an action on the case, for money had and received by Wood to the use of Robb, the bankrupt. Judgment below was entered by consent, subject to the opinion of the court on a case stating the following facts, viz. On the 30th of May, 1800, Robb being in possession of his household furniture, and having two vessels and no other property, on the high seas, signed, sealed, and delivered, a deed to Charles Garts and Gabriel Wood, trustees in behalf of themselves and other creditors of Robb, therein particularly named, and such others…
1Opinion of the Court
The chief justice
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the fourth circuit sitting at Baltimore, in the following case.
On the 30th of May, 1800, William Robb, who was then a merchant carrying on trade and merchandize, in the state of Maryland, signed, sealed and delivered to Gabriel Wood, an instrument of writing, purporting to convey to the said Gabriel, his real and personal estate in trust, to secure him from certain notes and acceptances made by him, on account of the said Robb, and afterwards, in trust for other creditors in the…
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