Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia, in a suit in equity. The bill stated that the complainants’testator and the defendant’s testator, together with three others, viz., Boisfeillet, Du Bignon and Grand Closmesle, became joint purchasers of the islands of Sapelo, Blackbeard, Jekyll, and half of' St. Catharine, on the coast of Georgia ; that Dumoussay was the acting partner, and kept all the accounts, &c.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia, in a suit in equity. The bill stated that the complainants’testator and the defendant’s testator, together with three others, viz., Boisfeillet, Du Bignon and Grand Closmesle, became joint purchasers of the islands of Sapelo, Blackbeard, Jekyll, and half of' St. Catharine, on the coast of Georgia ; that Dumoussay was the acting partner, and kept all the accounts, &c. That an account was stated and sighed by the two testators, Chappedelaine and Dumoussay, on the 30th of April 1192, by which the former acknowledged abalance of 6611. 10s.…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court
as follows : — The bill in this case is brought to set aside a stated account *185•which was signed by Dumoussay and Chappedelaine, in. July 1792, on the suggestion of fraud on the part of Dumoussay; or, if it be not set aside, to correct its errors, and to obtain a settlement of transactions subsequent to that account. The stated account is pleaded in bar of so much of the bill as requires that the subject should again be opened ; and the particular errors assigned, with the exception of one in the addition, are denied in the answer.
That the…
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- Chappedelaine v. DechenauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1808