Gassett v. Morse
United States District Court
This was a petition by Henry Gassett and others against Jonathan Morse and James L. Chapman, and was filed August 12th, 1842. The petition, after setting forth an indebtedness to the petitioning creditors in a sum exceeding five hundred dollars, alleged, that Morse and Chapman, being partners in trade, owing more than two thousand dollars, and insolvent, on the twenty eighth day of May, 1842, made and executed to one Orange Smith a fraudulent conveyance, assignment and…
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This was a petition by Henry Gassett and others against Jonathan Morse and James L. Chapman, and was filed August 12th, 1842. The petition, after setting forth an indebtedness to the petitioning creditors in a sum exceeding five hundred dollars, alleged, that Morse and Chapman, being partners in trade, owing more than two thousand dollars, and insolvent, on the twenty eighth day of May, 1842, made and executed to one Orange Smith a fraudulent conveyance, assignment and transfer of all their lands and tenements, goods and chattels, and credits and evidences of debt; and prayed, that they might…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentiss, J.
At the hearing of this case I had a very strong opinion upon it, and ordinarily should have pronounced an immediate decision ; but as the case was one of a good deal of magnitude, and of great interest, especially to one of the individuals concerned in the transaction, I thought it my duty on that account, *629more than on account of any real difficulty in the case, to examine it fully. I have taken pains to go through all the cases having any bearing upon the subject, have read them attentively and thoroughly, and the result has been a full confirmation of the opinion I at first entertained.
The…
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