Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1856

Boyd v. Rockport Steam Cotton Mills

Boyd v. Rockport Steam Cotton Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1856
73 Mass. 406

Boyd v. Rockport Steam Cotton Mills

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The assignment to the Providence Bank was • not perfected. To treat the signature of James on the blank form of transfer as a power to make a transfer is to give to it its utmost legal effect. As such, it was a power not executed.

The assignment made by James to Freize was invalid as against an attaching creditor in this state; being in direct contravention of the policy of our laws. Defendants defaulted.

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