Gray v. Lonsdale

I adopt the following opinion prepared by Mr. Chief Justice Slidell, during the session of this Court in May last:

It may be conceded that the judgment paid by Gray was a liability of Lons-dale & Gray, and that under the agreement of dissolution, and the subsequent agreement of 1848, Lonsdale was bound to hold Gray harmless from this liability. But the question remains whether the receipt of May, 1851, endorsed upon the agreement of 1848, is not an insuperable obstacle, as the evidence stands, to the plaintiff’s recovery. Upon this point the case turned in the court below, and must turn here.

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