McKim v. Odom
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed on the 23d of June, 1827, by William S. Moore and John McKim, junior, against John Odom, George Law, William G. Harrison, William F. Jinderson, and The President and Directors of the Franklin Bank of Baltimore.
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This bill was filed on the 23d of June, 1827, by William S. Moore and John McKim, junior, against John Odom, George Law, William G. Harrison, William F. Jinderson, and The President and Directors of the Franklin Bank of Baltimore. The bill states, that the plaintiff Moore and the defendant Odom, being joint and equal owners of the schooner Beauty, sent her on a voyage from Baltimore to Montevideo, under Odom as master; that, for the better management of the concerns of their vessel, they employed the defendants Law fy Harrison, then partners in trade, as her ship’s husband; that it was agreed…
1Opinion of the Court
Bland, Chancellor.
This case having been set down for hearing by the plaintiffs upon the bill and answers thereto alone; and having been submitted on their part without argument ; and the solicitors of the defendants having on the 28th of March last filed a note in which they say, that ‘the counsel for the defendants having understood that this case is set down for hearing at the present term; and that the object of complainants is to obtain against the defendant Law a decree to account. They, therefore, respectfully submit to the Chancellor, whether the complainants are entitled to any such…
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