Wood v. Watkinson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of debt on judgment, in the usual form, brought by Wood, Johnson ⅜ Burritt against Henry Wells, Peter Vandervoort and Edward B. Watkinson, partners, under the firm of Wells, Vandervoort ⅝ Co. The plea, by agreement, was Nil debet. The cause was tried, at Hartford, January term, 1846, before Storrs, J., when the following facts were proved and admitted.
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This was an action of debt on judgment, in the usual form, brought by Wood, Johnson ⅜ Burritt against Henry Wells, Peter Vandervoort and Edward B. Watkinson, partners, under the firm of Wells, Vandervoort ⅝ Co. The plea, by agreement, was Nil debet. The cause was tried, at Hartford, January term, 1846, before Storrs, J., when the following facts were proved and admitted. The judgment on which t.he action was brought, was rendered by the superior court of the city of New-York, at the term of that court held in May 1839, in a suit brought by Wood, Johnson Burritt, the present plaintiffs,…
1Opinion of the CourtS torus, J.
This is an action of debt on a judgment recovered in the superior court of the city of New-York, in the state of New-York, in favour of the plaintiffs, against Wells, Vandervoort Watkinson, all of whom are named as defendants in the suit, but in which service of the writ has been made only upon Watkinson, who alone appears to defend.
It appears by the record, introduced by the plaintiffs, of the judgment on which they rely, and it is admitted, that service of the process in the suit in which it was rendered, was made on Vandervoort, but not on either Wells or Watkinson ; and that neither of…
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