Beers v. Place

This is a bill in equity praying this court to declare void a levy of an execution upon certain machinery of the bankrupts, and thus remove a cloud on the title of the assignees thereto. The facts which have led to this controversy are as follows:—The Allerton Iron Works Manufacturing Company were a corporation located at Norwalk, Connecticut, and engaged in building machinery. They had a machine shop, and such tools and machinery as are necessary in a business of that character.

On the 10th of January, 1870, Reynolds & Co., a corporation located at New Haven, brought a suit against the…