Peters v. Bain
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. ; These were appeals from a final decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Yirginia, entered .on the 15th day of June, 1886, upon a bill in equity brought by William H. Peters, receiver of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, against Bobert T. K. Bain, George M. Báin, Jr., and James G. Bain, late partners under the name and style of Bain & Brother,…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. ; These were appeals from a final decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Yirginia, entered .on the 15th day of June, 1886, upon a bill in equity brought by William H. Peters, receiver of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, against Bobert T. K. Bain, George M. Báin, Jr., and James G. Bain, late partners under the name and style of Bain & Brother, survivors of themselves and Thomas A. Bain, deceased; and John T. Griffin, William W. Old and John B. Jenkins, trustees…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Puller
The opinion of the late Chief Justice clearly delineates the grounds upon which the Circuit Court proceeded and minimizes our labors in the disposition of this case.
The deed of assignment was attacked as fraudulent in law arid in fact., The statute of Elizabeth, c. 5, against fraudulent conveyances has been universally ^adopted in American law as the basis of our jurisprudence on that subject, (Story Eg. Jur. § 353,) and reenacted in terms, or nearly so, or with' some.change of language, by the legislatures of the several States.
In Yirginia the statute reads as follows: “ Every gift,…
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