Hill v. Marston

This is a bill in equity brought by the assignees in insolvency of the Phoenix Rattan Company to set aside two bills of sale, absolute in form but mortgages in fact, on the ground that they were preferences. As we think* it very plain that the conveyances cannot stand, we shall not discuss the evidence at much length. The bills of sale were executed by the defendant Marston, president of the insolvent company, to himself and his wife, on May 10. Most of the testimony had to be got from him, and he told no more than he had to and hardly was always candid.

To begin at the end, on May 22 the…