Martell v. Dorey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 29, 1917, and afterwards amended, against John J. Dorey, Willard B. Bryne, Caroline E. Mantón, Ida E. Small, the Exchange Trust Company, G. Wallace Tibbetts and the American Sugar Refining Company, to reach and apply in satisfaction of debts amounting to $4,242.40 and interest owed to the plaintiff by the defendant Dorey, property conveyed by him to and held by the defendants Bryne, Mantón, Small, the Exchange Trust Company…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 29, 1917, and afterwards amended, against John J. Dorey, Willard B. Bryne, Caroline E. Mantón, Ida E. Small, the Exchange Trust Company, G. Wallace Tibbetts and the American Sugar Refining Company, to reach and apply in satisfaction of debts amounting to $4,242.40 and interest owed to the plaintiff by the defendant Dorey, property conveyed by him to and held by the defendants Bryne, Mantón, Small, the Exchange Trust Company and Tibbetts in fraud of the creditors of Dorey. The third paragraph of the bill read as follows: “3. That the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a suit in equity by a judgment creditor of John J. Dorey, who is the principal defendant. Various persons were named as defendants. The only one now sought to be *39charged is Willard B. Bryne. The suit is brought to reach and apply, in payment of the plaintiff’s debt, property of the defendant which cannot be attached or taken on execution in an action at law and which has been placed in the hands- of Bryne in fraud of the creditors of Dorey. Final decree was entered in favor of the plaintiff. Rioux v. Cronin, 222 Mass. 131. The defendant Bryne appealed.
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