Burden v. Burden
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
In Equity. Motion to strike from the bill of complaint on exceptions thereto, as scandalous and impertinent, the following: “That the said sons of James A. Burden, respondents herein, are dependent entirely upon their father’s bounty; that James A. Burden, Jr., is married and has a family, and keeps up an expensive establishment, being a house in New York City, in the fashionable part of said city, and that the said Williams P. Burden and Arthur S. Burden also live…
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In Equity. Motion to strike from the bill of complaint on exceptions thereto, as scandalous and impertinent, the following: “That the said sons of James A. Burden, respondents herein, are dependent entirely upon their father’s bounty; that James A. Burden, Jr., is married and has a family, and keeps up an expensive establishment, being a house in New York City, in the fashionable part of said city, and that the said Williams P. Burden and Arthur S. Burden also live expensively on their father’s bounty, not being, as your orator is informed and believes, in any business or having any…
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The bill of complaint charges, in brief, that the Burden Iron Company was organized June 30, 1881, for the purpose. of taking, over and conducting the business of the copartnership firm of Henry Burden & Sons, of which, at that time, the complainant, I. Townsend Burden, and the defendant James A. Burden, were the sole and equal copartners and owners. All the property of every name and nature belonging to said copartnership was duly transferred to the corporation, which became and still is the owner thereof. The complainant and the individual defendants herein, except…
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