Therasson v. Hickok
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. The case was heard at the September Term, 1863, Pierpoint, J., presiding, upon the bill 'and answer of the defendant Hickok, and a statement of facts agreed upon by the parties, (all of which are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court,) and the court pro forma ordered and decreed that as to the defendant Hickok, the bill be dismissed, and that he recover his costs. From this decree the orator appealed.
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Bill in Chancery. The case was heard at the September Term, 1863, Pierpoint, J., presiding, upon the bill 'and answer of the defendant Hickok, and a statement of facts agreed upon by the parties, (all of which are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court,) and the court pro forma ordered and decreed that as to the defendant Hickok, the bill be dismissed, and that he recover his costs. From this decree the orator appealed. The assignment was void as against the orator. 1. Under the statute of 1843, then in force, declaring all general assignments void. This was a general assignment…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
On the 13th February, 1849, Noble Lovely executed' an instrument in writing, called an assignment, to the defendant Hickok, conveying all the attachable property which the assignor then had in this state or. elsewhere, excepting an interest in western lands, of uncertain character and amount, in trust for the benefit of certain creditors of the assignor, eighteen in number. All of the attachable property which the assignor then had in this state was then under attachment on writs in favor of these creditors severally, and the assignor had agreed upon terms of composition and settlement with…
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