Plunkett v. Dillon
Supreme Court of Delaware
This case came up on appeal from the decree of the Chancellor sitting in and for Hew Castle County, upon cross bills and answers filed by the parties respectively against each other, and was heard before Gilpin, C. J., Wootten, Houston and Wales, Associate Judges.
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This case came up on appeal from the decree of the Chancellor sitting in and for Hew Castle County, upon cross bills and answers filed by the parties respectively against each other, and was heard before Gilpin, C. J., Wootten, Houston and Wales, Associate Judges. The bill of Plunkett, the complainant below in the first case, alleged that on the 10th day of August 1864, he and Dillon, the defendant below in it, verbally agreed that they would buy on their joint account from William Ferris and Philip Garrett, a tract of land in the city of Wilmington, on the terms and conditions, and for the…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Bates, Chancellor.
This case has a long history, one too familiar to counsel to need any detailed statement of it; suffice it to say, that its present position, standing as it does upon the orignal bill and answer, and the cross bill and answer, is equivalent to a reference to the Chancellor of the mutual demands of the parties for the purpose of obtaining a final decree in favor of the one party or the other, for such balance as may be found due to him, and at the same time for such disposal of the suits at law now pending as the result of this investigation may render proper. I proceed then…
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