Grant v. Administrator of Ludlow
Ohio Supreme Court
This is a Bill of Review to reverse a decree of the late Supreme Court, sitting in Hamilton county, at the April Term, 1847. Reserved in the District Court. In September, 1838, Charles S. Clarkson of Cincinnati, then an extensive pork packer, went to the eastern cities for the purpose of raising money to prosecute his business the ensuing season.
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This is a Bill of Review to reverse a decree of the late Supreme Court, sitting in Hamilton county, at the April Term, 1847. Reserved in the District Court. In September, 1838, Charles S. Clarkson of Cincinnati, then an extensive pork packer, went to the eastern cities for the purpose of raising money to prosecute his business the ensuing season. He took with him a strong letter of introduction from Josiah Lawrence, also of Cincinnati, to Grant & Stone, commission merchants of Philadelphia. Between the 13th and 20th September, 1838, a conditional arrangement was made in Philadelphia between…
1Concurrence
Swan, Bowen, and Scott, JJ.,
concurred.
After this court had announced their opinion upon the rights of Grant & Stone and the merits of the case, it was suggested by the counsel of the Lafayette Bank that some of the defendants to the original bill, and who had been made parties to the bill of review, were not served with process, the same having been returned, as to some of them, not found. Leave was then given to the complainants to the bill of review to have process issued against the defendants not found, and to also amend and file a supplemental bill in this court for the" purpose of…
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