Legal Opinion
Hyde Park Savings Bank v. Davankoskas
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 6, 1937PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The findings of the judge show the following facts. The defendant Davankoskas, on October 9, 1935, brought a bill under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 214, § 3 (7), to reach and apply, in payment of a debt due from one Budris, property alleged to be in the possession of the plaintiff bank. On October 10, 1935, a subpoena was served upon the plaintiff bank, but the assistant treasurer, mistaking the process for the copy of a writ in trustee process at law (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 246, § 5), filed it away. If it had been a copy of a writ in trustee process, there would have been little risk in failing to…
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