Faulkner v. Hyman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trustee process. The Superior Court ordered judgment for the plaintiffs, as against 'the claimant of the funds in the hands of the trustees, and that the trustees be charged; and the claimant appealed to this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
The plaintiffs, on December 24, 1884, attached, as property of the principal defendants, certain debts due to them from persons in this Commonwealth named in the writ as trustees. Prior to this attachment, the defendants had, on December 20, 1884, assigned to the claimant all the property of their copartnership by a description sufficiently general to include these claims, in trust to pay certain preferred debts in full, and afterwards to pay their remaining debts proportionally to their respective amounts, so far as the residue should suffice for that purpose. The assignment was made in the…
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