Davis & Brooks v. Mapes
New York Court of Chancery
This case came before the chancellor on exceptions to a master’s report, allowing certain exceptions to the answer of the defendant Mapes, for insufficiency.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The first, second, sixth, seventh and eighth exceptions allowed by the master, all depend upon the same principle. The first relates to matters charged in the bill as having ocurred between the complainants and other persons; as to which, it is not pretended the defendant Mapes has any knowledge, except from the information of others. The four last relate to judicial proceedings against another person, such as the issuing of a writ, the verdict given by a jury, and the judgment and execution founded there*106on. As to all these matters, the defendant answers, in substance, that he…
2Cited by3 opinions
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