Belden v. Sedgwick
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit in the nature of a bill of interpleader, brought under the provisions of Chap. 42 of the Public Acts of 1893 to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants Sedgwick and wife, for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Suit in the nature of a bill of interpleader, brought under the provisions of Chap. 42 of the Public Acts of 1893 to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants Sedgwick and wife, for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The plaintiff sued as trustee in insolvency of the estate of Benjamin Sedgwick, to establish his title as such, and also a lien for his services and disbursements against the insolvent debtor, bis wife and creditors, some of whom had…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
An assignment in insolvency was made to the plaintiff as trustee for the benefit of the creditors of Benjamin Sedgwick, the assigning debtor, and duly filed in the proper Court of Probate. The goods assigned belonged to the wife of the assignor, and had been bought by him as her agent and statutory trustee, for use in a mercantile business of which she was the proprietor and he the manager, and which had proved to be a losing one. She had joined in requesting the plaintiff to act as trustee in insolvency, and both she and her husband had agreed with him on the terms on which he should act,…
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