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10 Abb. Pr. 382

Dale v. Jacobs

New York Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1871

New York Supreme Court · decided 1871-03-15

Defendant was arrested in two causes, on the ground that a certain debt due plaintiff had been fraudulently contracted. He now moved to vacate the orders.

Decided 1871-03-15

Cabdozo, J.

¶1I do not think there is any difficulty as to this case. The goods were sold upon a short credit of thirty days, at the end of which defendants claim to be insolvent, but decline to furnish any explanation of their affairs.

¶2Becoming insolvent so soon after the sale, it is not too much, there being no explanation offered, to believe that they were so when they made the purchases, and, if that be so, they fraudulently concealed the fact, intending, when they bought the goods, not to pay for them. That was “a fraudulent contracting of the debt (Nichols v. Michael, 23 N. Y., 264). I cannot say that the affidavits do not disclose such fact, and the conduct of the defendants has not been such as to justify a jury in finding that the debt was not so contracted.

¶3Motion in both cases denied.

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