Bassick v. Ætna Explosives Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
At Raw. Actions by Edgar W. Bassick and by Herbert E. John against the ./Etna Explosives Company, Incorporated, and George C. Holt and another, as receivers of the .Etna Explosives Company, Incorporated. Defendants set up a cause of equity, and prayed for affirmative relief.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
The substantial amount involved, the number of the agreements between the parties in controversy and the contracts to which they relate, and the varied facts and circumstances leading up to and surrounding them, require a rather full statement of the case. The actions are at law. The defendants, inter alia, set up a cause of equity (Ætna Explosives Co. v. Bassick, 220 N. Y. 767, 116 N. E. 1032), and ask for affirmative relief. By stipulation, the causes were tried by the court without a jury.
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