Scheck v. Bowne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

This is an appeal by the defendants, Bowne and Mertz, from a decree in chancery, advised by Vice-Chancellor Berry, setting aside an assignment of mortgage from A. C. Windsor, Incorporated, to Abram H. Cornish, trustee for appellant-defendants, and also setting aside an assignment of a retained percentage due the corporation under a construction contract between it and the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Essex. Six defendants were named in the bill.

A. C. Windsor, individually, had been engaged in a joint enterprise with Bowne and…