Frank v. Bobbitt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two trustee processes. Writs dated November 21, 1889. The cases were submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for certain claimants, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows.
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Two trustee processes. Writs dated November 21, 1889. The cases were submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for certain claimants, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows. The plaintiffs in each case were residents of the State of Maryland, and sought to recover in an action of contract for goods sold in that State to the defendants, and brought their actions in this Commonwealth in order to attach funds of the defendants in the possession of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth,…
1Opinion of the Court
Morton, j.
The assignment was made on November 13, 1889, and, as the agreed facts state, is valid in the State of North Carolina, where it was made and recorded, and where the assignors and assignees live. At the time the assignment was made, the personal property mentioned in it, and the insurance policy under which the amount is due that is the subject of this suit, were delivered to the assignees. The loss had occurred before the delivery of the policy to them. The assignment conveys, among other things, this and other policies, and “also all the accounts, notes, mortgages, or other choses…
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