Pearpoint v. Graham

WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.

This is a suit in equity brought by Pearpoint and Lord, to recover a debt due to them by Stephens & Co. out of the estate of that company, iu the hands of Peter Graham, their trustee. Previous to the assignment made to Graham, Horatio Bigelow of Philadelphia, and Robert Stephens, Jr., of Charleston in South Carolina, were co-partners in trade, under the firm of Stephens & Co. in Philadelphia, and that of Robert Stephens, Jr., & Co. in Charleston; and on the 10th of April, 1816, Bigelow, at Philadelphia, executed an instrument, not under seal, in the name of…