Angell

In July, 1880, the defendant A. F. Collins obtained a money judgment against the defendant Horace B. Angell and one Cyrus Palmer, and in September of that year an execution which had issued on the judgment was returned wholly unsatisfied. In May, 1884, the said Collins and the defendant Elizabeth A. Bisdon, to whom an interest in the judgment had been assigned, instituted proceedings supplementary to execution against said Angell, which resulted in an order of the superior court, made May 23, 1884, commanding him to assign to one Forbes, a receiver appointed for that purpose, all the right, title, and interest which he, the said Angell, had in four letters patent for improvements in dredging-machines, to be sold in satisfaction of said judgment. A further order was made, permitting all persons or corporations claiming an interest in said letters patent to commence and prosecute any action against said receiver, to determine and enforce such interest. Whereupon the plaintiff herein, a corporation, commenced this present action, averring in its complaint that it is the real owner of one undivided half of said letters patent, and praying that it be decreed to be such owner; that said…