Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1881

Sullings v. Ginn

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 31, 1881 · Gray

131 Mass. 479; 1881 Mass. LEXIS 298

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

Noble v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co. (Mass. 1921)
American Wood Working Machinery Co. v. Furbush (Mass. 1907)
Dalton-Ingersoll Co. v. Fiske (Mass. 1899)

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Opinion of the Court

Gray, C. J.

Both points in this case are governed by previous decisions. The assignment in insolvency, having been executed since the St. of 1880, c. 246, § 7, took effect, is controlled by its provisions, and does not dissolve an attachment made more than four months before the commencement of the proceedings. O'Neil v. Harrington, 129 Mass. 591. The insolvent law of the Commonwealth, differing in this respect from *480the recent bankrupt act of the United States, leaves the question whether a continuance shall be granted, so as to enable the debtor to obtain and plead a certificate of discharge, to the discretion of the court in which the action is pending. Barker v. Haskell, 9 Cush. 218. Exceptions overruled.

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