Wakeman v. Grover
New York Court of Chancery
These were separate and distinct suits, prosecuted by different solicitors; but as they both came before the court at the same time, related to the same property, and the questions arising in each were the same, they were considered and decided together. The bill in the first cause, in which Wake-man was the complainant, was filed in May, 1828, and the bill of Varnum was filed a few days thereafter.
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These were separate and distinct suits, prosecuted by different solicitors; but as they both came before the court at the same time, related to the same property, and the questions arising in each were the same, they were considered and decided together. The bill in the first cause, in which Wake-man was the complainant, was filed in May, 1828, and the bill of Varnum was filed a few days thereafter. The complainants, respectively, were judgment creditors of the defendants Grover and Gunn, and had issued executions at law against the property of those defendants, which executions were returned…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The important question to be considered and decided in these causes is, whether the assignment upon its face is illegal and void, as being in violation of the statute, or as intended to delay, hinder, or defraud the creditors of Grover and Gunn in the collection of their debts. Before I approach this question, however, it is necessary to examine some other points, which have been made by the counsel on the argument! It is alleged in the answers of the defendants that certain other creditors of Grover and Gunn have recovered judgments at law, and that their executions have been…
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