Beach v. Reynolds & Bush
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Monroe Special Term ordering this suit to be revived and continned, on a supplemental complaint in the name of Henry B. Hewett, administrator, with the will annexed of the plaintiff, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Talcott, J.
This was a suit in equity, commenced before the Code, by filing a bill and issuing a subpoena to answer, on the 38th day of June, 1848. The cause of action, and grounds of equitable jurisdiction, set up in the complaint, are founded upon certain *500loose and obscure contracts between the parties, then all residents , of Rochester, growing out of an attempted speculation in pine lands, in the State of Maine, in the year 1835.. Assuming the truth of the complaint, the contracts relate to certain lands in that State, which none of the parties to the suit ever owned, but for…
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