Walsh v. Kelly
New York Supreme Court
THIS case came up on appeal from a judgment entered in an action brought against the defendant as sheriff, for taking and detaining goods of the plaintiff of the value of $3000. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Marvin and a jury, at the June circuit, in New York, 1862. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, valuing the property at $2750, and awarding damages in addition, to the amount of $401, besides costs.
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THIS case came up on appeal from a judgment entered in an action brought against the defendant as sheriff, for taking and detaining goods of the plaintiff of the value of $3000. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Marvin and a jury, at the June circuit, in New York, 1862. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, valuing the property at $2750, and awarding damages in addition, to the amount of $401, besides costs. Ho application was made at special term to set aside the verdict, but an appeal was taken directly from the judgment to the general term. On the trial the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Leonard, J.
The principal questions argued before us in this case require an examination whether the judge at the trial has fully and sufficiently presented to the jury in his charge certain abstract propositions of law to which his attention was called by several requests of the counsel for the defendant.
An exception was taken to the charge in response to the second and third requests. Those requests contained substantially the propositions: First. That the transfer of property to hinder, delay or defraud the creditors of the person making the transfer, was fraudulent and void,…
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