Jaquith v. Massachusetts Baptist Convention
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed April 22,1897, in the Superior Court, by the assignee in insolvency of the joint and separate estates of Henry A. Davis and Henry C. Hathaway, against the Massachusetts Baptist Convention, a corporation, Ezra F. Pratt, Lizzie E. Pratt, Henry A. Richardson, Viola I. Davis, and Julius Marqueze, to set aside alleged fraudulent transfers of a parcel of land in Malden, and for an accounting.
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Bill in equity, filed April 22,1897, in the Superior Court, by the assignee in insolvency of the joint and separate estates of Henry A. Davis and Henry C. Hathaway, against the Massachusetts Baptist Convention, a corporation, Ezra F. Pratt, Lizzie E. Pratt, Henry A. Richardson, Viola I. Davis, and Julius Marqueze, to set aside alleged fraudulent transfers of a parcel of land in Malden, and for an accounting. At the hearing, before Richardson, J., the following facts were agreed. On April 25,1896, an involuntary petition in insolvency was filed in the Insolvency Court for Suffolk County…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The conveyances prior to October, 1896, affecting the property, taken in chronological order, were as follows.
The deed of August 15, 1894, from Pratt to Henry A. Davis; the mortgage of the same date from Davis to the Massachusetts Baptist Convention; a subsequent mortgage of the same date from Davis to Pratt (discharged on the records, August 28, 1895); another mortgage of September 6,1894, from Davis to his father (discharged December 7, 1894); a deed of December 4,1894, from Davis to Richardson, and a deed of the same date from Richardson to Viola I., the wife of said Davis'; a mortgage of…
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