Kendall v. Beaudry’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““In ascertaining the existence of this element, the question is whether the debtor does in fact give or hire his services to another, the fruits thereof to belong to that other, or does he merely exert himself under the color of another’s name, with the understanding or purpose that the fruits of 1ns exertion shall be his, hut screened by that other’s name from his creditors. The former situation satisfies all that is meant by the expression ‘good faith’ in this connection. - * * * He may be led to so act because of the hopelessness of attempting to devote his efforts to a business of his own, where they would be rendered abortive by the prompt attach of creditors as soon as they became at all productive. Such motive or reason is not inconsistent with the good faith of the transaction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rowe v. Drohen