Getchell v. Jewett
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a bill inequity, containing the following allegations. The plaintiff, being indebted to one Johnson in the sum of two hundred dollars which he could not then pay, obtained of Johnson the promise of a credit of six months for one half of the debt, and twelve months for the other half, upon condition of furnishing a Satisfactory surety.
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This was a bill inequity, containing the following allegations. The plaintiff, being indebted to one Johnson in the sum of two hundred dollars which he could not then pay, obtained of Johnson the promise of a credit of six months for one half of the debt, and twelve months for the other half, upon condition of furnishing a Satisfactory surety. The defendant, at the plaintiff’s request, agreed to become his bondsman; and notes were accordingly given to Johnson on the 18th day of September 1822. To secure the defendant against this liability, and also to secure the payment of fifty dollars…
1Opinion of the Court
Mellen C. J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The equity or chancery powers of this court are of a limited character, compared with the vast and extensive jurisdiction of the court of chancery in England ; which exercises its authority in cases of accident and mistake, of account, of fraud, of infants and their interests, of trusts, and in compelling the specific performance of agreements ; and yet, as Maddock observes, “ ac • “ cording even to this enlarged classification of the subject, it “ may not be very obvious how the great multiplicity of doctrines “ arising out of the equity…
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