Wells Sappington v. Shreve's Admr
Supreme Court of Delaware
This case was twice argued in the Court of Errors and Appeals, the first time at the June Term, 1860, and again at this term by order of the court, before Harrington, Chancellor and Wootten and Houston Justices.
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This case was twice argued in the Court of Errors and Appeals, the first time at the June Term, 1860, and again at this term by order of the court, before Harrington, Chancellor and Wootten and Houston Justices. The case came up on a writ of error to the Superior Court for Sussex County, and was commenced in the court below by a writ of foreign attachment issued at the suit of Jones, the administrator of Shreve, who was the endorsee of W. and J. Sooy, against Wells and Sapping-ton, lately trading as E. L. Wells & Co., on the 24th of December, 1857, on a cause of action consisting of five…
1Dissent
As the impression which I entertained when this question was argued in the court below, and which inclined me to dissent from the opinion of the majority of the members who decided it there, has only been strengthened and confirmed by subsequent reflection and the re-argument of it here, I shall be pardoned I trust, for the time I shall occupy in assigning my reasons for the more mature conclusion to which I have now arrived, but which I deem scarcely necessary after the clear and satisfactory opinion which has just been delivered by the Chancellor upon it.
Although the suit below was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hall v. LittleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817
- Wilson v. AppletonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1821