Butler v. Beach
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a receiver of an insolvent corporation to collect a debt due to it for goods sold, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. A cross-complaint was filed by Mary B. Beach, and both complaints found to be true by the court, Bennett, J. Judgment for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
This suit is brought for the price of goods sold to the defendants by the insolvent corporation, Hills & Company, Incorporated, on and before April 24th, 1905. The receiver was appointed in May, 1905.
Hills & Company, Incorporated, was organized to succeed to the grocery business of Hills & Company, copartners. In November, 1903, this partnership owed the defendant Mary B. Beach, and James G. Batterson, about $19,000, to recover which they sued the firm in July, 1904, and levied an attachment on goods and moneys amounting to more than the sum of the indebtedness. Subsequently they agreed with…
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