Sands v. Codwise
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
THE respondents filed their bill in the court of chancery, as creditors of the appellant, Comfort Sands, for themselves, and all the other creditors of Comfort Sands, who should be adjudged entitled so to do, and who should come in and contribute to the expenses of the suit, or any other proceedings which might be directed,, or take place, in consequence of such suit, against the appellants, and others, made defendants.
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THE respondents filed their bill in the court of chancery, as creditors of the appellant, Comfort Sands, for themselves, and all the other creditors of Comfort Sands, who should be adjudged entitled so to do, and who should come in and contribute to the expenses of the suit, or any other proceedings which might be directed,, or take place, in consequence of such suit, against the appellants, and others, made defendants. The appellant, Comfort Sands, for many years, prior t At the he stopped payment, he was possessed of a large personal estate, and a large and valuable real u estate ; part of…
1Opinion of the Court
The reasons for the decree were thus given by
The Chancellor.
The right of the complainants generally to sustain this bill was questioned, on the ground that they had not made out a lien on the property of the bankrupt; and they referred their right to a period anterior to 1797, before which they allege their debts accrued.
In a former stage of this cause before me, the complainants’ bill was demurred to, by some of the defendants, because some of the complainants, claiming to he creditors, had not proved or offered to prove their debts before the commissioners of bankruptcy; and this cause of…
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