Heineman v. Hart
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Marquette. (Grant, J.) Bill to avoid chattel mortgage, etc. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
This suit in equity was brought by complainant as receiver under an insolvent assignment made January 29, 1883, by the firm of Leopold & Co. (consisting of Asa F. Leopold and Albert Austrian), to Robert Hart, who resigned the office of assignee. Its object is to set aside a chattel mortgage purporting to have been made on the 19th of the same month by Leopold & Co. to defendant, as fraudulent against creditors. The court below gave a decree in favor of complainant, setting aside the mortgage. From this decree defendant appealed.
It was claimed on the argument that the assignee could not attack…
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