Curtis v. Barnum
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, tried before the superior court for Fairfield county, at the March term, 1856. The court found the facts, and reserved the case for the advice of this court.
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This was an action of trover, tried before the superior court for Fairfield county, at the March term, 1856. The court found the facts, and reserved the case for the advice of this court. From that finding, it appears that the defendant, on the 17th day of December, 1853, by virtue of a writ of attachment in favor of William B. Glover against Cyrenius Curtis, attached the goods in question, as the property of Curtis, and took them into his possession, and afterward, in the same month, attached them in two other suits. The creditors in these suits, having obtained judgments and executions…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, C. J.
Cyrenius Curtis made an assignment of his property, for the benefit of his creditors, under the statute relating to insolvent debtors. That statute provides that all attachments, made at any time within sixty days preceding such assignment, shall be dissolved, and all property so attached shall vest at once, free from such attachments, in the trustee.
The attachments made by the defendant in the present case, were made within sixty days preceding that assignment, and therefore fall directly within the very provisions of the statute, and in consequence thereof, and of the assignment, became…
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