Legal Opinion

In re the Final Accounting of Hyman

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided January 3, 1888Published

Appeal from a final decree of this court entered on the report of a referee upon a final account of an assignee under an assignment for benefit of creditors and exceptions thereto. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJ. F. Daly, J.

In the account and schedules filed by the assignee he stated that he had paid to certain creditors a dividend of 32 per cent.; among them were named four foreign creditors whose claims aggregated $19,635.27, whose dividend at 32 per cent., paid as so stated, amounted to $5,283.29. The account and schedules were verified by the oath of the assignee, stating that as to money paid by him to creditors they were correct, and that he did not know of any error, or anything omitted which might in anywise prejudice the right of any person interested in the estate.

*376This oath, so far as it related to the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Pease v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
  2. Levy's AccountingNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1876
  3. In re the Assignment of WolffNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1886
  4. Warren v. HaightNew York Supreme Court · 1872
  5. In re the Assignment of OrsorNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1879

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