Legal Opinion

Morris & Mowatt v. Parker

New York Court of Chancery

Decided January 23, 1818PublishedCited by 6 opinions

ON appeal from the Master’s report, allowing exceptions to the answer of the defendant. The material facts charged in the bill, or to which the defendant was interrogated, and his answer to which was excepted to, as evasive and unsatisfactory, are sufficiently stated by the court.

1Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor.

The first exception to the answer is, that the bill having set forth a certain petition to have been presented to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of New-York, by Janies Bingham, and Benjamin Stokes, as assignees of John Jones Waldo, a bankrupt, and the contents of the said petition; the defendant, in answer to that part of the bill, said he had not any “ knowledge or information” as to the truth or falsehood of the several allegations charged to have been contained in that *298petition without stating what his belief was concerning the same.

p- js not…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Woods v. MorrellNew York Court of Chancery · 1814

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Grady v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1856
  2. Costello v. TaskerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
  3. Kersey v. RashCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1869
  4. Smith v. LasherNew York Court of Chancery · 1821
  5. Miles v. MilesSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1853

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