Pierson v. Thompson
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause was filed by the assignees of the late Daniel D. Tompkins, under a Voluntary deed of assignment made the fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, conjointly with the trustees appointed to subscribe for stock of the Fulton. Bank in the city of New York on his account, under the eleventh section of the act incorporating the bank, passed first of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
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The bill in this cause was filed by the assignees of the late Daniel D. Tompkins, under a Voluntary deed of assignment made the fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, conjointly with the trustees appointed to subscribe for stock of the Fulton. Bank in the city of New York on his account, under the eleventh section of the act incorporating the bank, passed first of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. The creditors of the estate were made defendants; and the bill prayed that the accounts of the complainants might be taken and settled, the trusts closed…
1Opinion of the Court
The Vice-Chancellor.
A number of exceptions have
been taken to the master’s report in this case and upon which *214the cause has been heard. I shall now proceed to consider them in their order. ,
The first is an exception taken by Thomas Hulme, one of the complainants, to so much of the report as charges the assignees (of whom he is one) with sums of money received by him at different times, amounting to six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars or thereabouts, for rents and purchase money of certain lands on Staten Island, the title whereof was formerly in him and which moneys he claims of right…
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