Rosenbluth v. DeForest & Hotchkiss Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit by a trustee in bankruptcy to secure the cancellation of certain deeds of real estate made by the bankrupt to the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to the second and third defenses of the answer and to the defendant’s counterclaim was sustained (Reed, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Williams, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
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Suit by a trustee in bankruptcy to secure the cancellation of certain deeds of real estate made by the bankrupt to the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to the second and third defenses of the answer and to the defendant’s counterclaim was sustained (Reed, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Williams, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff is the trustee in bankruptcy of Garrett J. Fitzgerald, a building contractor of New Haven,, who was adjudged a bankrupt on February…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff, as trustee in bankruptcy, seeks from the Superior Court such equitable relief as will annul, and make as though they never were, two conveyances of real estate executed by his bankrupt to the defendant, one recorded and the other unrecorded, and give to him, as such trustee, the title to such real estate, unaffected by such conveyances, which title by reason thereof now appears upon the land records to be in the defendant. The complaint as finally amended contains, in support of its prayers, certain allegations which assert the invalidity, as against the plaintiff, of the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Thompson v. FairbanksSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Stewart v. PlattSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Beach v. OsborneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Hart v. ChalkerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1840
- Bush v. GoldenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1846
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