Palmer v. Mason

This bill was filed to quiet complainant’s title against attachment proceedings brought by the defendant Bulen in the name of the other defendants to collect a debt against one Witthans, and the court having decreed a dismissal, the complainants appealed. All the parties are citizens of New York except Bulen, who is a citizen of Michigan.

January 9, 1877, Witthans was indebted to Smith & Mason for about $11,000, and feeling that it was questionable whether the' debt could be collected, they entered into a written agreement with Bulen, who thought he could collect it here, to transfer it to him…