Legal Opinion
Burnham v. Dalling
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided May 15, 1863PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Separate bills were filed by three children of William Bale, against the defendant as their guardian, for an account. A decree was ordered in each case that the defendant should account. The court is now asked *311by the complainants to consolidate the suits. Our statute, which authorizes the consolidation of suits at law at the instance of the defendant, does not extend to suits in equity, Nix. Dig. 659, § 59.
Books of equity practice are silent on the subject. In The Warden and Fellows of Manchester College v. Isherwood, 2 Simons 476, sixteen bills had been filed for tithes, by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Vroom v. DitmasNew York Court of Chancery · 1836
- Clason v. ChurchNew York Supreme Court · 1799
3Cited by6 opinions
- Bugbee v. Van CleveNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1926
- Jennings v. Studebaker Corp.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1933
- Healey v. Walbrook Park Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1935
- Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of WestfieldNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1951
- Mutual Securities Corp. v. G.T. Harris Corp.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1926
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