Foot v. Ketchum
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was An appeal from a decree of the court of chancery. The oratrix, Harriett S. Foot, in her bill, set forth and charged, in substance, that previous to the 26th of February, 1836, the said Joseph C. Ketchum and Calvin A. Shaw were copartners in trade under the firm of Ketchum & Shaw, and that mutual accounts current existed between the said Ketchum & Shaw and the oratrix, and that the oratrix had, at the same time, a large account against the said Ketchum; that on the…
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This was An appeal from a decree of the court of chancery. The oratrix, Harriett S. Foot, in her bill, set forth and charged, in substance, that previous to the 26th of February, 1836, the said Joseph C. Ketchum and Calvin A. Shaw were copartners in trade under the firm of Ketchum & Shaw, and that mutual accounts current existed between the said Ketchum & Shaw and the oratrix, and that the oratrix had, at the same time, a large account against the said Ketchum; that on the said 26th of February, the oratrix executed her note, payable on demand, to Ketchum & Shaw for $404.94, being the balance…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bennett, J.
This case has come before us by an appeal from' a decree of the chancellor of the third judicial circuit, and we are called upon to revise his proceedings. In February, 1836, the oratrix was indebted to Ketchum & Shaw, in about the sum of four hundred dollars, and gave them her note payable to their order on demand. The note has been prosecuted to final judgment, and the object of this bill is to procure a set-off of a claim which the oratrix has *267against Joseph C. Ketchum, in payment of the judgment on the note. The first question which…
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