NUDD v. Burrows, Assignee
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action brought by the defendant in error,, as the assignee of one Norton Emmons, a bankrupt, against the plaintiffs in error, to recover the net proceeds of about eleven carloads of live-stock and dressed hogs shipped by the bankrupt to the plaintiffs in error, and one thousand dollars in money paid by him to them, which proceeds' and money they had applied to the payment of…
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Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action brought by the defendant in error,, as the assignee of one Norton Emmons, a bankrupt, against the plaintiffs in error, to recover the net proceeds of about eleven carloads of live-stock and dressed hogs shipped by the bankrupt to the plaintiffs in error, and one thousand dollars in money paid by him to them, which proceeds' and money they had applied to the payment of .his indebtedness to them,.in fraud, as contended by the assignee, of the provisions. of the act to establish a uniform…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The first of the assignments of error presents the question, whether the court erred in admitting in evidence the declarations of the bankrupt.
The suit was brought by the assignee to recover against Nudd and Noe for money and property which they had received from Emmons. They had applied the money and the proceeds ' of .the property in payment of a debt which Emmons owed •; them. The property was live-stock, consisting of cattle, sheep, •:aiid hógs. The net proceeds were $7,553.27. The money was $1,000. The aggregate amount in controversy was $8,553,27. The assignee claimed that the stock was…
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