Outhwite v. Porter

Christiancy J.:

This was a bill to restrain the collection of three promissory notes and a mortgage made by complainant, to the defendant Porter, upon two of which notes judgment had been obtained:

Cantine, one > of the defendants, (who was not served with process, but against whom the bill was taken as confessed upon publication,) had been a partner of complainant from the spring of 1860 down to the fall of 1861. He had had the whole management of the business, keeping the books himself — the complainant being engaged personally, most of his time, in other business, and being ignorant of…