Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1842 (Butler v. Hildreth)

Shaw, C. J.

The plaintiff is assignee of Messrs. Thurston and Pickering, insolvent debtors, under the insolvent law of 1838. This action is trover to recover the value of a quantity of goods, sold by the insolvent debtors to the defendant, some months before the proceedings under the insolvent law were commenced, and for which the defendant gave his promissory notes, payable on demand.