Hoyt v. Thompson
The Superior Court of New York City
The "bill in this cause was filed in the supreme court, by Jesse Hoyt against Abraham G. Thompson, George B. Fisk, The Long Island Railroad Company, and Digby Y. Bell, George B. Cooper, and Gideon O. Whittemore. The three last named were made parties, as being respectively, the auditor general, the treasurer, and the secretary of state, of the state of Michigan.
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The "bill in this cause was filed in the supreme court, by Jesse Hoyt against Abraham G. Thompson, George B. Fisk, The Long Island Railroad Company, and Digby Y. Bell, George B. Cooper, and Gideon O. Whittemore. The three last named were made parties, as being respectively, the auditor general, the treasurer, and the secretary of state, of the state of Michigan. The object of the bill was to compel the defendant, Thompson, to assign to the complainant, a bond for forty thousand dollars, and certain mortgages securing the same, executed by the Long Island Railroad Company to the Morris Canal…
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Dues, J.
The grounds upon which we shall decide this case will render unnecessary the consideration of many of the questions that were elaborately discussed at the hearing; and as in the progress of a litigation that may still be expected, the same questions may again be raised, we shall abstain from any expression of our present views in relation to them.
The plaintiff claims to be the assignee of a debt of $40,000, which in its origin, was due from the defendants, The Long Island Rail Road Company to The Morris Canal and Banking Company, and the payment of which was seemed by the bond of the former…
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