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McIntyre v. Ingraham

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1858PublishedCited by 14 opinions

ERROR to the District Chancery Court at Natchez. Hon. B. 0. Buckley, vice-chancellor. In September, 1848, Ingraham and Read filed their bill against Thomas G. McIntyre and William Bridgers.

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ERROR to the District Chancery Court at Natchez. Hon. B. 0. Buckley, vice-chancellor. In September, 1848, Ingraham and Read filed their bill against Thomas G. McIntyre and William Bridgers. This bill alleges, that by a deed of trust, executed by the Grand Gulf Bank to Ingraham and Lindsay, on the 10th of February, 1842, the Bank transferred and assigned to them and the survivor of them, &c., all its property and choses in action, in trust for the payment of its debts. ' That Lindsay died in 1842, and that, on the 31st of December, 1842, Ingraham and the Bank executed another deed of trust to…

1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.

The case presented by the record before us is this: On the 18th November, 1841, the plaintiffs in error executed their promissory note to the President and Director's of the Grand Gulf Railroad and Banking Company, a bank of this State, incorporated by the Legislature in the year 1888, by whom the note was assigned by deed of assignment on the 31st December, 1842, to the defendants in error, who brought this suit to recover the amount of it.

The plaintiffs in error pleaded, in abatement to the suit, that the note was assigned by the bank, in violation of the statute of this State, passed on…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Elmendorf v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1825
  2. Planters' Bank v. SharpSupreme Court of the United States · 1848
  3. Head & Amory v. Providence Ins. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1804
  4. Scott v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1847

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Escalle v. MarkNevada Supreme Court · 1919
  2. People v. Broadway RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
  3. McArthur v. Maryland Casualty Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1939
  4. Ex parte SiebenhauerNevada Supreme Court · 1879
  5. Speed v. KellyMississippi Supreme Court · 1881

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