Jones v. Gorham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The only question m this case was, whether Williams was the rustee of Gorham at the time of his being summoned. By his answer to the usual interrogatory it appeared that, before the service of the summons, W. had been appointed sole assignee of one Samuel Rogers, a bankrupt, who at the time of his bankruptcy was indebted to Gorham in 9069 dollars 78 cents, on two negotiable promissory notes.
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The only question m this case was, whether Williams was the rustee of Gorham at the time of his being summoned. By his answer to the usual interrogatory it appeared that, before the service of the summons, W. had been appointed sole assignee of one Samuel Rogers, a bankrupt, who at the time of his bankruptcy was indebted to Gorham in 9069 dollars 78 cents, on two negotiable promissory notes. A first dividend was ordered December 5, 1803, and Gorhams proportion of it was soon after paid to him. The second dividend, of which G.’s proportion was 450 dollars, was ordered on the ninth day of July,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Sedgwick, J.,
who, after stating the principal facts contained in the answer of Williams,' including his information and belief of the assignment and delivery by Gorham of Rogers’s notes to Messrs. Rogers, Lee, and Brotan, observed that neither of these last facts is important in determining the case on the ground on which it is placed by the arguments of the counsel for Mr. Williams. They say that by his undertaking, expressed in his endorsement on the back of those notes, they became assignable, according to the cases cited from Blackstone…
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