Legal Opinion
Blanchard v. Evans
The Superior Court of New York City
Decided January 3, 1888Published
Appeal by plaintiff from judgment dismissing the complaint. The facts appear from the following opinion delivered at special term
1Opinion of the Court
Truax, J:
“The plaintiffs say in the brief handed up by theifi counsel on the trial that (in no sense is this a creditors’ action, but that it is an action by a bona fide owner of a chose in action to cancel or declare void as to the plaintiffs, a certain pretended assignment of such chose in action, which antedates an assignment of the same chose in action to the plaintiffs, on the ground that the prior or earlier assignment is affected by fraud and collusion, is a fraud upon plaintiff’s title, and is about to be fraudulently and collusively used and applied to the prejudice and injury of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Williams v. . IngersollNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
- People v. SingletonNew York Court of Appeals · 1977