Tufts v. Matthews

Colt, D. J.

This is an action for deceit. Tlie defendants bave demurred to the declaration. The main question raised by the demurrer is whether an action of deceit is assignable. The facts alleged, so far as it is found necessary to state them, are as follows:

One Nathan Matthews, of .Boston, was adjudicated a bankrupt upon petition filed August 90, 1878, and assignees were duly appointed. On December 19,1879, tlie assignees sold all tlie assets of the bankrupt remaining in their hands, and all their rights of action against the defendants, to Benjamin F. Brooks; and on January 22,1880, Edwin…