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39 Me. 528

Totman v. Sawyer

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1855

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1855-07-01

ON Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Rice, J., presiding. This was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note. James A. Thompson, the trustee, disclosed an assignment made to him by the defendants in due form of law, for the benefit of all their creditors. At the Nov. term 1855, the plaintiffs having caused the creditors who had become parties to the assignment, to be cited into Court, they alleged that it was made in fraud of creditors and void.

Decided 1855-07-01

Hice, J.

¶1— Thompson, the trustee, was also the assignee of the defendants. The plaintiffs alleged that the assignment to Thompson was fraudulent and void as to creditors. On this point the issue was made up between the plaintiffs and Thompson as assignee. To protect the interests of those creditors of the defendants, who have become parties to the assignment they had been summoned into Court. Whether they appeared or not, the case does not find. They did not become parties to the record and if they participated in the defence it was under Thompson with whom the issue was made up, and by whom they were represented. Notice to Mm was therefore sufficient.

¶2In the admission of those portions of the deposition which have been copied with the case no error is perceived.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

¶4Judgment on the verdicL

TenNEY, J., did not sit in this case.
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