Brewster v. Hammet
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery for an injunction to restrain proceedings at law, and for a restoration of property attached, reserved, with the report of a committee finding the facts, for the advice of all the Judges, on the question whether the plaintiffs were entitled to the relief sought.
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
Sturges Brewster and Robert Anderson were partners in trade until the 22d day of February, 1819, when they dissolved their partnership connexion, with a view to the settlement of their concerns. On the same 22d of February, Augustus Hammet and William I. Lane caused an attachment to be issued against the said Robert Anderson, for his separate debt, and attached the one equal and undivided half of the stock of the above-mentioned partnership, as the property of Anderson; and having left it, unremoved from the place where it was taken, in the possession of Sturges Brewster and one…
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