Veazie v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the. Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine, sitting as a court of equity. -The complainant, Veazie, resided at Bangor, in the State of Maine, and the defendants in Massachusetts, viz. Nathaniel L. Williams at Boston, and Stephen Williams at Roxbury. The facts of the case were these.
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This was an appeal from the. Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine, sitting as a court of equity. -The complainant, Veazie, resided at Bangor, in the State of Maine, and the defendants in Massachusetts, viz. Nathaniel L. Williams at Boston, and Stephen Williams at Roxbury. The facts of the case were these. On the 1st of January, 1836, Nathaniel L. Williams and Stephen Williams were the owners of two mill privileges, situated on Old Town Falls, in the town of ,Orono and State of Maine. On that day, they offered the property for sale, at public auction, in the town of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
delivered the. opinion of the court.
This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court in the Maine District, dismissing a bill which was brought originally by Yeazie, the appellant.
As to the contents of the bill and the evidence m its support, it may suffice to say here, that the bill asked the rescission of a sale at auction, made' about the 1st of January, 1836, of certain mills, owned by the respondents, and a return of the money paid, and the notes still held by them for a. part of the purchase-money. It asked this, on the alleged ground of imposition in the sale by means of puffing…
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