Burrows v. Keays’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““A reference to the assignment shows that ‘the said party of the first part [Burrows], being insolvent, has voluntarily assigned, and hereby doth voluntarily assign, to the said party of the second part [Keays], all of his estate and effects, real and personal, of every nature and kind whatsoever.’ This, we think, is sufficiently full and complete to transfer and pass the title to the plaintiff to the property in question, and gives him a right to come into court and enforce and protect such title, as against the claims of the assignor. Any other view, assuming the position of defendant to be correct, would enable a debtor residing in Canada to send his property into this State, then make a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors’, and at once come here and enjoy his property, without any power in the assignee to follow him and obtain possession thereof. This branch of the case very closely resembles Graydon v. Church, 7 Mich. 50 , where the same questions were discussed,'and the conclusion there arrived at must govern and determine in this case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chicago Lumbering Co. v. Powell