Parker v. Muggridge
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire
The following bill in equity, or summary proceeding, was filed in the district court of New Hampshire by the plaintiffs.
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The following bill in equity, or summary proceeding, was filed in the district court of New Hampshire by the plaintiffs. “To the Honorable Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire: “Humbly complaining, show unto your hon- or, Isaac Parker and Abraham W. Blanchard, both of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and state of Massachusetts, merchants, late partners in trade, under the firm of Parker and Blanchard, that on and prior to the seventeenth day of May, A. D. 1837, the said Parker and Blanchard held certain notes, and accounts, and other just claims…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
I do not wish to trouble Mr. Fletcher to reply, because I entertain no doubt whatsoever in this ease. It is clear to my mind, that the contracts in this case were good and valid, and founded in a valuable consideration, and that the object of them was to give a perfect security to the plaintiffs, for their debts, so far as the property attached could go, and these attachments could by law be made available. These contracts created a clear equitable lien upon the property attached, which a court of equity would be bound to enforce, and even a court of law ought to…
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