Day v. Washburn
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the. district of Indiana, sitting in equity.- Washburn made an assignment of his property to Keith, for the benefit of his- creditors. Day and Matlock, and Frothingham and Warner, citizens of Ohio and New York, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of'the United States to set' asirle this de.ed as fraudulent.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the. district of Indiana, sitting in equity.- Washburn made an assignment of his property to Keith, for the benefit of his- creditors. Day and Matlock, and Frothingham and Warner, citizens of Ohio and New York, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of'the United States to set' asirle this de.ed as fraudulent. They alleged, as a- reason for not slicing him at law, that he had no property upon which a judgment would be alien, nor any that an execution would reach. Other creditors of Washburn, upon simple contract debts, came in by a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana.
The bill was-filed- in the court below by two-mercantile firms, creditors of Washburn, against him and the assignee of his property, for the purpose of setting aside the assignment as fraudulent against creditors, and that the property might De applied .in satisfaction of the complainants’ demands. These demands were simple contract debts, not reduced to judgment.
The defendants demurred to the bill, and assigned, as the ground of the demurrer, the want of equity.
The court overruled the…
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