Strike's Case
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed, in Baltimore County Court, on the 25th day of February, 1817, by William McDonald, against John Rogers and Nicholas Strike; and, on the 21st of May, 1819, the bill was so amended by consent, as to allow Samuel McDonald also to come in as a plaintiff; and, that the claim should be made as due to them as partners, under the firm of McDonald fy Son.
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This bill was filed, in Baltimore County Court, on the 25th day of February, 1817, by William McDonald, against John Rogers and Nicholas Strike; and, on the 21st of May, 1819, the bill was so amended by consent, as to allow Samuel McDonald also to come in as a plaintiff; and, that the claim should be made as due to them as partners, under the firm of McDonald fy Son. It is stated in the bill, as thus amended, that the plaintiffs are and have been some time past partners in trade, under the firm of McDonald if Son; that, some time previous to the year 1811, a partnership had been formed and…
1Opinion of the Court
Dorsey, Chief Judge.
The said cause being ready for hearing, and having been fully argued by complainants and defendants, the bill, answers, exhibits, testimony, and all other proceedings, were by the court read and considered ; and it being fully established to the satisfaction of the court, that the deeds of the sixteenth January, 1811, from the defendant Rogers to the defendant Strike, mentioned in the said proceedings, were executed for the purpose of defrauding the creditors of Rogers, and without bona fide consideration, — Decreed, that the said deeds be, and they are hereby declared…
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