Cooper v. Douglass
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL by the plaintiff from a judgment in favor of the defendants, rendered on the 27th of June, 1864, by-direction of Justice Lott, on a trial had before him in Suffolk county, without a jury, in October, 1863. .
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Hogeboom, J.
This is an action by the plaintiff, as the assignee of one Isaac Stanborough, against the defendants as the owners of the ship Jefferson, to recover of the latter a balance alleged to have been due from them to Stanborough for his proportion (one fortieth part) of the earnings of the vessel and due to him as his wages for services thereon as a cooper and mariner. The defense thereto is, that the plaintiff has no valid assignment of such a claim, or if he has, that the defendants have a superior right as assignees of Stanborough for debts owing by Stanborough to them,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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