Bloomfield v. Snowden
New York Court of Chancery
This cause was referred to the vice chancellor of the second circuit to hear and decide the same. He made a decree therein dismissing the complainant’s bill with costs. From that decree the complainant appealed to the chancellor.
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This cause was referred to the vice chancellor of the second circuit to hear and decide the same. He made a decree therein dismissing the complainant’s bill with costs. From that decree the complainant appealed to the chancellor. Pending this suit, and before the decree of the vice-chancellor was made, McDermut and D. &■ J. Ames acquired an interest in the subject matter of the litigation, by virtue of an agreement with the defendants, and became the equitable assignees of their interest in certain notes, the collection of which Was restrained by the injunction. After the decree of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
If the decision of the vice chancellor is incorrect, the defendants, or their assignees who have taken the notes with notice of all the equities between the parties, shou](j not be permitted to go on at law and collect the amount before the case can be disposed of on the appeal. But they allege that Bloomfield threatens to put his property out of his hands if they proceed against him on the notes; and that they have offered to deliver up to him the notes on his assigning over the property of the company, for the stock of which the notes were given. They also object that they…
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