Pettes v. Bank of Whitehall
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from the court of chancery. The orators alleged, in their bill, that, from the first day of July, 1839, to the first day of December, of the same year, the orator Pettes was sheriff of the county of Windsor, and that the orator Ingraham was a deputy sheriff under him; that on the eighth day of July, 1839, Ingraham, who resided at Chester, received, in a letter from Daniel Roberts, Jr., of Manchester, an attorney at law, an execution in favor of the Bank of Whitehall…
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Appeal from the court of chancery. The orators alleged, in their bill, that, from the first day of July, 1839, to the first day of December, of the same year, the orator Pettes was sheriff of the county of Windsor, and that the orator Ingraham was a deputy sheriff under him; that on the eighth day of July, 1839, Ingraham, who resided at Chester, received, in a letter from Daniel Roberts, Jr., of Manchester, an attorney at law, an execution in favor of the Bank of Whitehall against Edward Manning, Stephen Cummings and Addison Streeter of Ludlow, and Silas Briggs of said Manchester, for $555…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
We do not deem it important to go much at length into the reasons of the decision in this case, in denying the relief sought. The court have sought industriously for some good ground for granting the relief asked, but find none.
The first ground, upon which the case is put by the counsel for the orator, is, that the court refused to grant a review in the case at law, when the orator Pettes was entitled to it; and that this was done in the hurry of closing up the term in order to go into the next county. I have no doubt we do a great many…
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