Wolcott v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. THIS was an action on the case, by one of two covenan-tees, against the covenantor, for fraudulently taking, and pleading a discharge from the other covenantee, who had assigned his interest in the covenant, and yas a known bankrupt.
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IN ERROR. THIS was an action on the case, by one of two covenan-tees, against the covenantor, for fraudulently taking, and pleading a discharge from the other covenantee, who had assigned his interest in the covenant, and yas a known bankrupt. Several questions arising out of the same cause, have heretofore been submitted to the consideration and decision of this Court, first, on a ¡notion, and afterwards on a petition, fora new trial.(a) There was also a former suit between the same parties, for the same cause of action, which was brought up, on a writ of error, and was here decided upon its…
1Opinion of the Court
Swift, Ch. J.
This record presents the same question which has been decided in a former suit between the same parties ; and though it is generally sufficient to say, that the same question has been settled by a prior decision of the Court, yet I have been filling to hear the same point discussed again, with a determination to change my opinion, if I did not find it supported by general principles, and analogous cases.
The authorities on which the counsel for the plaintiff in error have chiefly relied, are the following : A. was bound in a statute-staple to B. and C., and after C. released to A.…
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