George Howes & Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case : The following are the facts as found by the court: I. George Howes and Jabez Howes were merchants and co-partners in San Francisco, Cal., under the firm name of George Howes & Co., from 1853 until about September 5,1880, when said firm suspended payment and failed, and has never since resumed business.
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The Reporters' statement of the case : The following are the facts as found by the court: I. George Howes and Jabez Howes were merchants and co-partners in San Francisco, Cal., under the firm name of George Howes & Co., from 1853 until about September 5,1880, when said firm suspended payment and failed, and has never since resumed business. Said George Howes left California in 1874, has. since continuously resided in New York and New Jersey, and has never returned to California. II. They presented two petitions to the Court of Commis-(22 Stat. L., 98), one September 2,1882, and the other…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:. Two adverse claimants bring their separate actions to recover the money which became payable at the Treasury upon judgments recovered in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims. They are, on the one side, George Howes & Co., the judgment creditors, and on the other George R. Wells, receiver.
In 1882 the Nevada Bank of San Francisco recovered judgment against George Howes & Co. in the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco for a large amount. The judgment remaining unsatisfied, the creditor bank filed a supplementary…
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