Griffith v. Griffith
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decree of the assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit, dismissing the complainant’s supplemental bill, with costs, as against the defendants Nash & Keyser ; and directing the receiver to pay over to them the rents and profits of the premises in controversy between the complainant and these defendants. The facts upon which the decree of the assistant vice chancellor was based are stated in the report of the case before him. (1 Hoff.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit, dismissing the complainant’s supplemental bill, with costs, as against the defendants Nash & Keyser ; and directing the receiver to pay over to them the rents and profits of the premises in controversy between the complainant and these defendants. The facts upon which the decree of the assistant vice chancellor was based are stated in the report of the case before him. (1 Hoff. Ch. Rep. 153.)
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
This case came before the court below upon the pleadings, and upon the verdict of a jury upon the issues framed under the act of April, 1838, to regulate the trial by jury and the taking of testimony in chancery. While that act was in force no testimony could be taken in suits in this court, except by the consent of parties, where issues of fact suitable for the determination of a jury could be framed upon the material points in the case. And where the issues framed under that act, and the verdict of the jury, in connection with the matters admitted in the pleadings between the…
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