Crease v. Babcock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a bill in equity, originally brought by William W. Crease alone, dated April 28th 1837, and entered at November term 1837, against numerous stockholders of the Chelsea Bank, the charter of which was repealed by St. 1837, c. 225, to compel the defendants, under the Rev. Sts. c. 36, $ 31, to pay certain bills, issued by said bank, which were unpaid when its charter was repealed, and of which said Crease was the holder.
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This was a bill in equity, originally brought by William W. Crease alone, dated April 28th 1837, and entered at November term 1837, against numerous stockholders of the Chelsea Bank, the charter of which was repealed by St. 1837, c. 225, to compel the defendants, under the Rev. Sts. c. 36, $ 31, to pay certain bills, issued by said bank, which were unpaid when its charter was repealed, and of which said Crease was the holder. The bank was made a party to the original bill, which was inserted in a writ that directed an attachment of the defendants’ property. Some of the defendants filed pleas…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered April 11th, 1840.
Wilde, J.
This was a bill brought against "sundry stockholders of the Chelsea Bank. At a former term, some of the defendants demurred to the bill, and the other defendants filed several pleas in bar. The demurrer was fully argued, and the argument on the pleas was opened on the part of the plaintiffs : but the reply of the defendants’ counsel was postponed, by order of the court, until the questions raised by the demurrer should be determined. The defendants now move to amend their pleas, to which the plaintiff objects, on the ground that…
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