Trask v. Green

Christiancy J.:

Admitting the case imade by the bill, can the bill be sustained? If not there is no propriety in discussing the evidence.

Construing the bill in the most favorable light for the complainant, the case is substantially this:

The complainant is a creditor of the Bank of Windsor (in the State of Vermont) which became insolvent in 1838. Thomas Emerson, being largely indebted to the Bank, and being the equitable owner of the undivided half of a farm in the county of Wayne, Michigan, the legal title to which stood in the name of Curtis Emerson and Royal II. Waller, turned out to the…