Bullock v. Boyd
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause sought the correction of various accounts in which the defendants stated a balance to be due to them from the complainant, on account of monies received from certain property assigned as security ; payment of a balance due him as alleged upon the transactions ; and a surrender of various collateral securities held by him, as well as certain vouchers of indebtedness.
1Opinion of the Court
The Assistant Vice-Chancellor :
The questions in the cause arise under two classes of accounts; the one, those between the complainant and defendants personally; the other, those between Boyd & Suydam, and William Lampson, Jr., whose debt to Boyd & Suydam, the complainant had guaranteed.
1st. As to the former. In the month of November, 1827, the complainant applied to Boyd & Suydam, to aid him and Wm. Lampson, Jr., in a purchase of an interest in certain property called the King’s Port Fur Company, in Lower Canada. A proposition was made to them, to become interested in the concern, but which…
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