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Creditor's Rights - Fraudulent Conveyances - Security Assignment Of Contract Payments Void If Assignor Retains Control, John A. Beach S.Ed.
Creditor's Rights - Fraudulent Conveyances - Security Assignment Of Contract Payments Void If Assignor Retains Control, John A. Beach S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
An insolvent debtor, who owed some $3,500 on plaintiff's partially-collected judgment, executed an instrument assigning to another creditor, a bank, all moneys due and to become due to the debtor under an existing contract, expressly as security for payment of the debtor's present and future indebtedness to the bank. The contract obligor was notified of the assignment, and thereafter the bank collected the amounts periodically accruing under the contract. The bank applied part of these collected amounts to the balance that the debtor owed the bank. The rest was either handed over to the debtor or credited to his general …
Corporations - Promotion - Discharge Of Promoter's Liability As Bidder At A Bankruptcy Sale, John Morrow
Corporations - Promotion - Discharge Of Promoter's Liability As Bidder At A Bankruptcy Sale, John Morrow
Michigan Law Review
On October 1, defendant made the high bid at a bankruptcy sale of hotel properties as "Mr. Ash, trustee." Later that same day a certificate of incorporation was executed for a corporation with Ash as treasurer. On October 4 the proper corporate papers were filed with the secretary of state. On October 4 the receivers receipted for the earnest money deposit, the instrument acknowledging, as interpreted by the court, that the receivers would look to the corporation to complete the contract and would not look to Mr. Ash personally. On October 14, the referee confirmed the sale to "Mr. Ash, …