Spencer and Pierce v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass. The facts in this case are as follows : Theodore Horton and Ferdinand Horton, the assignors of the plaintiffs, were extensive dry goods dealers in Providence. In August and September of the year’ 1850, they made large purcheses of goods for their business from various merchants in New York and Boston, payable upon credit of six and eight months. In December, 1850, they refused payment of the notes due from them.
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Trespass. The facts in this case are as follows : Theodore Horton and Ferdinand Horton, the assignors of the plaintiffs, were extensive dry goods dealers in Providence. In August and September of the year’ 1850, they made large purcheses of goods for their business from various merchants in New York and Boston, payable upon credit of six and eight months. In December, 1850, they refused payment of the notes due from them. It appeared in evidence, that in the summer of 1847 they had represented themselves to the merchants with whom they dealt in New York and Boston, to be worth about forty…
1Opinion of the Court
Haile J.
in summing up to the jury said. The plaintiffs claim title to the property attached under a deed of assignment of Ferdinand and Theodore Horton of the co-partnership property, and under the two deeds of assign ment of their individual property, dated March 8th, 1851. These deeds are proved to have been properly executed, delivered and recorded, and vest in the plaintiffs a perfect title to the property in question, unless they are void in law by reason of fraud in the deeds or in the intent with which they were made.
The parties in this case — the creditors under the assignment and the…
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