Dewey v. West Fairmont Gas Coal Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
In equity to set aside an assignment by an insolvent debtor as fraudulent, and to subject the assigned property to the payment of the complainants’ debt. The respondents filed a cross-bill. The decree dismissed the bill for want of equity and the cross-bill as dependent upon it. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
In October, 1872, a contract was entered into between the firm of Dewey, Vance & Company and the West Fairmont Gas Goal Company, the terms of which are stated in a letter from the former to the president of the coal company, dated October 7, 1872, as follows: “We beg to ratify our verbal agreement of October 4th, by which you are to deliver us until July, in 1873, an average of three cars of coke per day, at six cents per bushel of 41 pounds, we to settle for same by our note of 90 days from the 1st of each month for the previous month’s delivery.” This was acknowdedged as an acceptance of a…
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