Legal Opinion

Scott v. Smart's Executors

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1849PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Petition to revive a suit in chancery. The facts fully appear in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the court,

Wing, J.

The petition in this case is filed, praying that a suit pending in this court may he revived.

The petition was filed January 2, 1849. It states that the petitioner heretofore exhibited his bill in the supreme court of the territory of Michigan, against defendants; which by an act of the legislature has been transferred into this court.

*296To- this petition, some of the defendants therein named filed their plea, on the 4th of January,. 1849, in which they state that said suit was originally commenced in the supreme court of the late territory of Michigan on the 31st day of…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Satterlee v. MatthewsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  2. Bank of Hamilton v. Lessee of DudleySupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  3. Cochran v. Van SurlayNew York Supreme Court · 1838
  4. Mason v. HaileSupreme Court of the United States · 1827
  5. Thames Manufacturing Co. v. LathropSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Drake v. MahaneyMichigan Supreme Court · 1865
  2. Cady v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1939
  3. People ex rel. Twitchell v. BlodgettMichigan Supreme Court · 1865
  4. Sears v. CottrellMichigan Supreme Court · 1858
  5. People v. ChapmanMichigan Supreme Court · 1942

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