Legal Opinion

Hampton v. Morris & Rodman

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 14, 1859PublishedCited by 4 opinions

CASE 72 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. cited sections 2 and 7 of act of March 10, 1856, Sess. Acts 1855-6, page 108. cited Rev. Stat., page 340 ; Sess. Acts 1855-6, page 106; 7 B. Mon., 610.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE WOOD

DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT:

The act of our General Assembly, approved 10th March, 1856, entitled “ An act to prevent fraudulent assignments in trust for creditors, and other fraudulent conveyances,” provides in its first section that every sale, mortgage, or assignment which shall be made by debtors in contemplation of insolvency, and with the design to prefer one or more creditors to the exclusion in whole or in part of others, shall operate as an assignment and transfer of all the property and effects of such debtor, and shall inure to the benefit of all his creditors, in…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Grimes v. GrimesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1888
  2. Union Trust & Savings Co. v. TaylorCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
  3. Robinson v. RichardsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1859
  4. Cryer v. ConwayCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918

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