Beach v. President of the Fulton Bank
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Appeal from chancery. The respondents being the holders of a promissory note for $15,000, made by the appellants payable to Keeler and Rogers, a mercantile firm in the city of New-York, and negotiated by them, filed their bill to enforce the trusts contained in certain deeds of assignment executed by Keeler and Rogers to the appellants.
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Appeal from chancery. The respondents being the holders of a promissory note for $15,000, made by the appellants payable to Keeler and Rogers, a mercantile firm in the city of New-York, and negotiated by them, filed their bill to enforce the trusts contained in certain deeds of assignment executed by Keeler and Rogers to the appellants. The appellants, for the accommodation of Keeler and Rogers, and to enable them to continue their commercial operations, on the 22d October, 1825, made and signed four promissory notes, one for $5000, a second for $10,000, a third for $15,000, and a fourth for…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were pronounced:
By Chief Justice Savage.
1. As to the ordinary practice of the court upon a motion for the re-examination of a witness, several cases are found both in our own and in the English Books. In the case of The Trustees of Kingston v. Tappen, (1 Johns. Ch. R. 368,) a witness was ordered to be re-examined after publication passed, upon an affidavit of the witness that his testimony was materially mistaken. The chancellor remarked there was no suggestion of tampering with the witness. He cited 2 P. Wms. 647, where Lord Chancellor King is reported to have said,…
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