Wright v. Morley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon two receipts, signed by the defendant, for certain personal property attached by the plaintiff, a deputy sheriff, in an action against Frank A. Morley. The case was tried in the. Superior Court, without a jury, before Mason, J., who found for the defendant, and allowed a bill of exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
By the receipts upon which this suit is brought the defendant bound himself to keep the attached property safely, and to redeliver' it to the plaintiff upon demand, or, if no demand was made, to redeliver it within thirty days from the rendering of judgments in the actions in which the attachments were made, so that it might be taken on execution.
The character and effect of such a receipt were considered in the recent ease of Wright v. Dawson, 147 Mass. 384. In that case the judgment debtor was adjudged insolvent before the judgment was rendered, and the property attached, having been…
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- Wright v. DawsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
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