Ray v. Wight
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the acceptors of a draft for $2500, made by ihe Waterville Manufacturing Company, payable four months after date, and dated September 3, 1873. Writ dated January 20, 1874, and served on the trustees on the same day. The trustees admitted funds of the defendants in their hands to the amount of $1164, and they were in December, 1874, charged as trustees.
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Contract against the acceptors of a draft for $2500, made by ihe Waterville Manufacturing Company, payable four months after date, and dated September 3, 1873. Writ dated January 20, 1874, and served on the trustees on the same day. The trustees admitted funds of the defendants in their hands to the amount of $1164, and they were in December, 1874, charged as trustees. The defendants appeared and filed an answer, alleging that they had been on November 7,1875, adjudicated bankrupts, and that sufficient time had not elapsed for them to obtain their discharge, and praying that this suit should…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
A creditor who has brought his action more than four months before the commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy, and has made an attachment which is not dissolved by such proceedings, may doubtless, after the question of the bankrupt’s discharge has been determined by the United States court, have a special judgment against the property attached, even if a certificate of discharge has been granted to the bankrupt. Davenport v. Tilton, 10 Met. 320. Bates v. Tappan, 99 Mass. 376. Stockwell v. Silloway, 113 Mass. 382. Johnson v. Collins, 116 Mass. 392. Peck v. Jenness, 7 How. 612. Doe v.…
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