Booth v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia, kolden in and for the county of Washington. The dispute was about the same sum of money which was in controversy in the preceding case of Clark v. Hackett. Booth filed his bill in the circuit court, claiming the money in virtue of his character of receiver, appointed by the chancellor of the first circuit in the State of New York..
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This was an appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia, kolden in and for the county of Washington. The dispute was about the same sum of money which was in controversy in the preceding case of Clark v. Hackett. Booth filed his bill in the circuit court, claiming the money in virtue of his character of receiver, appointed by the chancellor of the first circuit in the State of New York.. All-the circumstances of the case are recited in the opinion of the court. On the 29th of March, 1853, the' circuit court dismissed the bill, and Booth appealed to this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
We learn from the record of this case that Juan de la Camara recovered a judgment in the supreme court of New York, against Ferdinand Clark, for $4,688 with interest at 7 per cent.; that a fieri facias was issued upon the judgment, and that there was a return upon it of “ no goods, chattels, or real estate of the de fendant to be levied upon.” Upon this return, Camara filed a creditor’s bill, before the chancellor of the first circuit in the State of New York, setting out his judgment and the return upon the fieri facias, in which he seeks, under the-laws of that state, to subject the…
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