Case Name: Benjamin Patterson and Another versus Thomas Buckminster and Trustee
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1817-05
Citations: 13 Tyng 144
Docket Number: 
Parties: Benjamin Patterson and Another versus Thomas Buckminster and Trustee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 126–126

Head Matter:
Benjamin Patterson and Another versus Thomas Buckminster and Trustee.
Where, in a foreign attachment, the trustee had disclosed, but in a manner not satisfactory, and a further examination was ordered to be had before a justice of the peace, to which the trustee refused to submit, and before the next term the principal debtor and the trustee died, judgment was entered against both as of the preceding term. ,
Actor Patten, the supposed trustee, came into Court at the last May term, and made a disclosure, which not being sufficient, a further examination was ordered to be taken before a justice of the peace. Patten refused to submit to such further examination ; and he as well as Buckminster, the principal defendant, both died before the present term, the latter having been defaulted before his death.

Opinion:
The Court adjudged Patten to be the trustee on his first disclosure, and ordered judgment to be entered against Buckminster as of the last May term, and that execution issue as of that term against his effects in the hands of Patten.