Coddington v. Bay
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
APPEAL from the Court of Chancery. The bill, filed June 15, 1819, by the respondent against the appellants, stated, that in April, 1819, being the owner of a vessel ed the Express, he employed R. 8/ S., who were merchants and copartners in trade, in New- York, to sell her, on a eredit, and instructed them to take good approved notes in payment, and to transmit them forthwith to him, with an - u ’no account of their charges, which should be immediately paid, with which…
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APPEAL from the Court of Chancery. The bill, filed June 15, 1819, by the respondent against the appellants, stated, that in April, 1819, being the owner of a vessel ed the Express, he employed R. 8/ S., who were merchants and copartners in trade, in New- York, to sell her, on a eredit, and instructed them to take good approved notes in payment, and to transmit them forthwith to him, with an - u ’no account of their charges, which should be immediately paid, with which instructions R. 8f S, engaged to comply. That R. 8f S. sold the vessel for 3,875 dollars, and on the 3d of June, 1819.,…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodworth, J.
Randolph Savage were the agents of the respondent, and, as such, held certain promissory notes belonging to him, which they, on the 12th of June, 1819, fraudulently, and without authority, passed to the appellants. It is stated, in the answer, that at the time the notes were received by the appellants, Randolph Sf Savage were not, in a strict legal sense, indebted to them in any amount whatever; but that the appellants were under engagements and responsibilities for them, having endorsed certain notes for R. Sf S., and lent them their own notes to a large amount, none of which had then fallen…
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