Schollars v. Coghlan

The trial justice gave judgment in favor of the plaintiff, without weighing the defendant’s testimony, and upon the theory that the defendant could hot avail himself of a defense in the Municipal Court, that a transfer of goods, evidenced by a bill of sale, from the husband of the plaintiff to her, was made without consideration. and in fraud of the husband’s creditors. In his opinion he states that, “ while the circumstances of such transfer are by no means free from suspicion, if I were to render a verdict for the defendant, the defendant’s principals would accomplish as much as and more…