Allen v. Center Valley Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, praying for a discovery and an injunction against further proceedings at law. On the hearing before the superior court, at Litchfield, February term, 1851, the controuling facts from which arise the questions in the case, were found to be these. engaged in making and disposing of cabinet furniture, and, among other articles of copartnership property, used and owned by them, was a steam engine, boiler and apparatus, of considerable value.
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This was a bill in chancery, praying for a discovery and an injunction against further proceedings at law. On the hearing before the superior court, at Litchfield, February term, 1851, the controuling facts from which arise the questions in the case, were found to be these. engaged in making and disposing of cabinet furniture, and, among other articles of copartnership property, used and owned by them, was a steam engine, boiler and apparatus, of considerable value. The debts of these plaintiffs were contracted by Hodges & Sage, while engaged in this business, and were copartnership debts.…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
These plaintiffs have similar interests, but not a joint one, in the object of their application.
The controversy here is between the plaintiffs, as copartnership creditors of the firm of Hodges & Sage, and the defendants, as the separate creditors of, or claimants under, Hodges and Sage, individually. The plaintiffs go especially for the steam engine, boiler, &c., which were, confessedly, joint copartnership estate, when their debts were contracted, and prior to the sale and delivery of them to the Center Valley Company; or they claim the stock, which was the avails thereof,…
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