Greenough v. Stephenson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of debt brought by the plaintiff to obtain an indemnity for having paid certain bonds given to the United States by the defendants as principals, and the plaintiff as their surety. This demand was not contested, and the only question in the action was, whether JRichardson, on the facts disclosed upon his examination, should be adjudged trustee. Those facts are substantially recited in the opinion of the Court, as delivered by
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
In this case the plaintiff demands of the principals indemnity for his being their surety on certain custom-house bonds. The demand is admitted; but the trustee denies that he has in his hands any credits of the principals to satisfy this demand, and he has submitted to an examination on oath, in which he has declared that when the summons was served on him (May 18th, [ * 215 ] 1807), the principals were his debtors to a * large amount. From his answers to several interrogatories, and from the conclusions of law on the facts disclosed in those answers, the nature and state of his connection…
2Cited by1 opinion
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