President of the Michigan State Bank v. Hammond
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case sets forth the same facts, as are alleged in the bill filed in the case of the Michigan State Bank v. Hastings and others, reported ante, p. 225, (which was between the same parties,) and also contains the additional averment, that, in consequence of the neglect and refusal of the state to indemnify the complainants against the claims and liabilities mentioned in the condition of the indenture or agreement set forth in…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case sets forth the same facts, as are alleged in the bill filed in the case of the Michigan State Bank v. Hastings and others, reported ante, p. 225, (which was between the same parties,) and also contains the additional averment, that, in consequence of the neglect and refusal of the state to indemnify the complainants against the claims and liabilities mentioned in the condition of the indenture or agreement set forth in the bill, a suit at law had been instituted in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne, against the' complainants,'…
1Opinion of the CourtWhipple, J.
The present case involves the same legal principles which were so ably discussed and so fulty considered by this Court at its last January term, in another and similar case between the same parties. (Vide ante, 225.) We are now called upon to decide whether the aspect given to the present case, will authorize us in granting the relief prayed for, and which was denied in the former one, for reasons stated in an opinion which I had the honor, as the organ of the Court, to deliver.
It becomes necessary, in the first place, to state with clearness the principles established by this Court, in the…
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