Murray v. Blatchford
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Appeal from the court of chancery. John B. Murray and John P. Mumford were partners in business, as merchants, in the city of New-York, under the firm of Murray fy Mumford, which partnership terminated in 1806. In 1818, Mumford filed a bill in the court of chancery against Murray, claiming a large balance as due to him, and praying an account.
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Appeal from the court of chancery. John B. Murray and John P. Mumford were partners in business, as merchants, in the city of New-York, under the firm of Murray fy Mumford, which partnership terminated in 1806. In 1818, Mumford filed a bill in the court of chancery against Murray, claiming a large balance as due to him, and praying an account. Murray put in his answer to the bill, a replication was filed, but before publication passed, the complainant, in 1820, died intestate, leaving a widow and six children, viz. John I. Mumford, Charles F. Mumford, Harriet, the wife of John D. Keese, Julia…
1Opinion of the Court
Savage, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The complainants contended, in the court of chancery, that the release should be set aside, on several grounds: 1. Because it was executed by only two of the administrators’; 2. Because there was a lis pendens in consequence of the notice of the application for the appointment of a receiver; 3. And principally because the transaction was fraudulent. Judge Emott, who sat for the chancellor, decided all these points in favor of the defendants, but held that this was a case in which the complainants ought not to be bound by the acts of the…
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