Union Bank v. Poultney
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from an order of the court of Chancery, granting an injunction under the acts of 1835, chs. 346 and 380. The bill in this cause was filed on the 14th November, 1836, by the appellees, and charged that in the month of May, 1832, a certain co-partnership was formed by William M. Ellicott and Samuel Poultney, to carry on the business of banking and dealing in money, bullion, exchange, bills, notes, and other evidences of debt, in the cily of Baltimore, under the style of…
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Appeal from an order of the court of Chancery, granting an injunction under the acts of 1835, chs. 346 and 380. The bill in this cause was filed on the 14th November, 1836, by the appellees, and charged that in the month of May, 1832, a certain co-partnership was formed by William M. Ellicott and Samuel Poultney, to carry on the business of banking and dealing in money, bullion, exchange, bills, notes, and other evidences of debt, in the cily of Baltimore, under the style of Poultney, Ellicott & Co. That certain persons, to wit: The Avalon Company, Thomas Ellicott, Samuel Poultney, Philip…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, Judge
This case comes before u's on an appeal from an order of the court of Chancery, granting an injunction to stay the sale of an equitable estate in lands, levied upon under certain writs of fieri facias-, issued out of the county eourt. Have the appellees, the complainants, by their bill, shewn themselves entitled to the high and extraordinary power of a court of equity, which has been exerted in their behalf, is the question brought up for revision in this court? We are of opinion that they have not. -There is no such evidence of their alleged claims as ought to have been produced to satisfy…
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