Holt v. Allenbrand
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment entered on report of referee. Action by Walter D. Holt, assignee for the benefit of creditors of Hiram J. D. Miner, to wind up the assignment. From a report of the referee, holding that the estate of Edwin Isham, assigned to George P. Isham, was liable to Bertie Allenbrand and others, creditors of a banking firm, which was held to have been composed of Miner and Edwin Isham, Isham appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDavight, J.
The plaintiff is the assignee, for the benefit of creditors, of one Hiram J. D. Miner. The assignment preferred three classes of creditors, tAvo of which have been paid, and the controversy in this ease arises upon the distribution of the residue of the estate among parties entitled thereto under the third preference of the assignment. On this appeal the question is, by consent of all parties, narrowed to the inquiry, for what debts of the plaintiff’s assignor is the estate of the defendant Edwin Isham (assigned to the defendant George P. Isham) also liable ? The data of the problem are the…
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