Case Name: Frank P. Bartley, Respondent, v. Archie M. Andrews and Others, as Trustees of Andrews & Company, a Common-Law Trust, Appellants, Impleaded with Archie M. Andrews and Others, Individually. (All of the defendants appeared specially.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1923-12
Citations: 208 A.D. 702
Docket Number: Appeal No. 1
Parties: Frank P. Bartley, Respondent, v. Archie M. Andrews and Others, as Trustees of Andrews & Company, a Common-Law Trust, Appellants, Impleaded with Archie M. Andrews and Others, Individually. (All of the defendants appeared specially.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 208
Pages: 702–703

Head Matter:
Frank P. Bartley, Respondent, v. Archie M. Andrews and Others, as Trustees of Andrews & Company, a Common-Law Trust, Appellants, Impleaded with Archie M. Andrews and Others, Individually. (All of the defendants appeared specially.)
(Appeal No. 1.)

Opinion:
Order denying motion to vacate warrant of attachment, and levies thereunder, and order of publication, reversed on the law, without costs, and motion granted, without costs. The defendants are sued in an action at law as trustees of a common-law trust in an effort to reach property held by them as such trustees. The trust property cannot be reached in an action at law, the only remedy being an action in equity. (Hussey v. Arnold, 185 Mass. 202; King v. Stowell, 211 id. 246; Sears' Trust Estates as Business Companies [2d ed.], p. 214, § 120.) The trust was apparently created in the State of Illinois. The statute of Massachusetts allowing such trusts to be sued at law has no force in this State. Kelly, P. J., Rich, Manning, Kelby and Young, JJ., concur.
See Mass. Gen. Acts of 1916, chap. 184; 2 Mass. Gen. Laws (1921), 2078, chap. 182, $ 6.— [Rep.