Cochran v. Cochran
Court of Chancery of Delaware
This was a bill in equity for the collection of a balance due upon a judgment, in the alleged absence of a remedy at law. The judgment was for the sum of $2367.58, recovered May 15th, 1809, in the Superior Court for Hew Castle County, at suit of James Couper Jr., guardian of Eliza Evans vs. Thomas Boulden, administrator c. t. a. of Philip Lewis, deceased.
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This was a bill in equity for the collection of a balance due upon a judgment, in the alleged absence of a remedy at law. The judgment was for the sum of $2367.58, recovered May 15th, 1809, in the Superior Court for Hew Castle County, at suit of James Couper Jr., guardian of Eliza Evans vs. Thomas Boulden, administrator c. t. a. of Philip Lewis, deceased. Eliza Evans afterward intermarried with Richard E. Cochran, to whom, after the marriage, July 20th 1812, the judgment was assigned by the guardian, there being then due a balance of $847.70. Afterward, October 15th, 1824, Richard E. Cochran…
1Opinion of the Court
Johns Jr., Chancellor.
The complainant, by the bill filed in this case, is seeking the recovery of a sum of money due under a judgment assigned to Arnold Eaudain.
The legal title, it is alleged, has been transferred by the assignment to Arnold Eaudain in trust. The object of the present suit is to enforce the legal right by putting the assignee in possession of the money due on the judgment. There is no question raised relative to the application of the fund. The ease presents a claim founded upon a legal right and prosecuted by a party entitled to pursue his legal remedy in the name of the…
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