Field v. . the Mayor, C. of New-York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the first district, where a decree, made by the late assistant vice-chancellor Lynch, dismissing the complainant’s bill, with costs, had been reversed, and a decree made in favor of the plaintiff.
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Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the first district, where a decree, made by the late assistant vice-chancellor Lynch, dismissing the complainant’s bill, with costs, had been reversed, and a decree made in favor of the plaintiff. This was a bill in equity filed by Field, the complainant, in the late court of chancery, against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, and Jared W. Bell, to enforce the payment of a claim against the city, assigned by Bell to John Garread, and by him to the plaintiff. The bill set forth that on the 14th of March 1842, Jared…
1Opinion of the Court
* Welles, J.
— By the assignment from Bell to -* Garread, of March 14th, 1842, it was intended to transfer to and vest in the latter, the right and interest of the former in and to all the bills which might thereafter become due to him, from the corporation of the city of New York, for job-printing, paper or stationery, done or furnished by Bell, either before or after the date of the assignment, to the amount of $1500 ; subject to the two prior assignments, to Lloyd & Hopkins, and to Coit. By the assignment from Garread to the respondent of April 28th, and the release from the former to the…
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