Stone v. Anderson
Superior Court of New Hampshire
In Equity. The bill was filed by Stone & Page, and other firms, merchants in Boston,'against Anderson & Sargent, partners, and also merchants doing business in Boston, and Samuel Morrison and William M. Morrison, of Bethlehem, in this county.
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In Equity. The bill was filed by Stone & Page, and other firms, merchants in Boston,'against Anderson & Sargent, partners, and also merchants doing business in Boston, and Samuel Morrison and William M. Morrison, of Bethlehem, in this county. The bill charges that Samuel Morrison, whom we understand to be the father of one Joseph F. Morrison, a pedlar, residing at Plymouth, in September, 1849, gave three orders in favor of said Joseph F. to procure goods of the complainants — one of the orders being drawn upon Stone & Page, and the other two upon the other complainants. The orders were in the…
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
From an examination of the bill filed in this case, it appears that the principal controversy is betweeen the orators, as creditors of Samuel Morrison, on the one part, and Anderson & Sargent upon the other. The Morrisons, although made defendants in the bill, are passive in the matter.
The first question that arises is, whether the bill can be sustained by the complainants, they being creditors only, and having simply attached the property of Samuel Morrison, without having obtained any further lien upon it, or exhausted their remedy at law.
In Dodge & a. v. Griswold & a., 8 N. H. Rep. 425, it…
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