Howell v. Ransom
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal by the defendant A. G. Ransom, from a decree of the late assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit.
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This was an appeal by the defendant A. G. Ransom, from a decree of the late assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit. The complainants, who resided in Orange county, were the executors of I. W.-Tuthill deceased, and as such, held two leases against 0. Wheaton, of Broome county, upon one of which leases there was due to their testator about $700, and upon the other about $100. The complainants placed these demands in the hands of Ransom, who was an attorney living in Chenango county, and not far from the residence of Wheaton, for collection. Ransom brought a suit upon one of the leases,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
From the view I have taken of the law
of this case, id is entirely immaterial whether the testimony of Heard is received or rejected. It is unnecessary, therefore, to consider the question, whether he had such an interest in the result of the suit as to render him an incompetent witness for the complainants. From the relation of attorney and client, which existed between the complainants and the defendant Ransom, it was mot necessary for them to prove actual fraud, on the part of the hitter, in obtaining an assignment of their judgment for about one-tenth of its actual value,…
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