Chipman v. Manufacturers' National Bank

The plaintiffs are assignees in insolvency of Dudley Hall & Co. The principal defendant, a national bank doing business in Boston, is a creditor of Dudley Hall & Co. Hall & Co. were adjudged insolvent on March 23, 1891. The assignment to the plaintiffs was made on April 9, 1891. On March 10, 1891, the defendant attached teas in New York in an action there, and it also attached .land in Maine in an action *148there. The teas and the land afterwards were attached by creditors foreign to Massachusetts, upon claims more than sufficient to exhaust the property, so that no part of it or its proceeds…