United States v. State Bank of NC
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS case came before the court on a certificate of division from the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina.
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THIS case came before the court on a certificate of division from the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina. The facts of the case upon which the question submitted to this court arose, were as follows: Willian H. Lippett, a merchant of Wilmington, North Carolina, was, on the 14th of October 1828, indebted to the United States and to sundry-persons., and among others to the State Bank of North Carolina; and on that day he made a;general assignment of all his property to Talcott Burr,-in trust to pay his creditors. The assignment directed that the sum of sixteen…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This cage comes before the court upon a certificate of division of .opinion of the judges of the circuit court for the district of North Carolina.
The suit is an information by the United States in the nature of a bill in equity, seeking to recover against the defendant, and Talcott Burr, as the assignee of William H. Lippett, the amount of custom house bonds owing by Lippétt to the United States; Lippett having become insolvent, and having made a voluntary assignment of all his property to Burr, for the benefit of his creditors, by which he has given a preference of payment to certain…
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