Case ID: how-pr_4/html/0291-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Bouchaud, ex’r, &c., appellant, vs. Joseph Lopez Dias and another, respondents.
    
      Decree of the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor reversed and bill dismissed with costs in the Court of Chancery.
    
    Edward Sandford, for the appellant;
    John L. Mason and B. F. Butler, for respondents.
   This case involved the question of the priority of claim of the United States, under an act of Congress, to payment where the insolvent debtor assigned for the benefit of a single creditor, and not for the benefit of creditors generally. (Reported, 1 Comstock, 201.)