Ivins v. Jacob
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill and demurrer to part thereof. The bill of complaint in this cause is filed by the administrator of the estate of Eichard Mason, deceased. Mason, in his lifetime, was engaged in Camden, in this state, in the business of selling and renting pianos with the privilege of purchase.
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On bill and demurrer to part thereof. The bill of complaint in this cause is filed by the administrator of the estate of Eichard Mason, deceased. Mason, in his lifetime, was engaged in Camden, in this state, in the business of selling and renting pianos with the privilege of purchase. The bill alleges that the defendant, trading in the name of Jacob Brothers, a piano firm in the city of Yew York, claims to have a debt against the estate of Mason for pianos sold to Mason in his lifetime, which the complainant has been led to 'believe from Mason’s books is as follows: Money due for pianos which…
1Opinion of the Court
Gkey, Y. C.
This demurrer is framed and has been argued upon the assumption that the bill of complaint alleges that the Mason estate presently owes to the defendant an unpaid indebtedness exceeding $21,000, and that to secure this indebtedness, the piano leases and the moneys payable thereon were by Mason, in his lifetime, assigned to the defendant.
For the purpose of this hearing, the facts narrated in the bill of complaint are by the demurrant admitted to be true in the manner .and form in which the complainant there states them. Facts not stated in the bill of complaint, or variances of…
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- State v. CampaneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
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