Stratton v. Essex County Park Commission

LANNING, District Judge.

This is an action at law to recover the balance alleged to be due on a contract. By the first plea the defendant sets up in bar of the action a decree of the Court oí Chancery of New Jersey dismissing the bill of complaint filed in that case. The plea sets out quite fully the substance of the bill of complaint, the answer thereto, and thq replication, and further states that:

“The said cause came on to he heard upon pleadings and proofs in the said Court of Chancery and on the 9th day of March, nineteen hundred and four, the cause having been duly heard and testimony…