Johnson v. Johnson Railroad Signal Co.

Pitney, V. C.

The petitioner claims to have a paramount interest as cestui que trust in a sum of money recovered by the receiver in a suit instituted by him in the federal court, and by petition called upon the receiver to account for it. The receiver, under direction of the court, did account; the petitioner excepted thereto, and a hearing was had upon those exceptions.

The circumstances were these: Mr. Bezer, the petitioner,'is the irrevocable attorney in fact of one Cheeswright, of England, in whose name two certain patents were issued by the United States, in 1881, on the 26th of April and…