Conyers v. Ennis
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
A bill in equity [by Conyers and another against William Ennis and others, administrators of Lewis Rousmaniere, for the payment of the cost of a quantity of rice purchased by the intestate, out of the proceeds of the rice in the hands of defendants] which was set. down by consent for a hearing upon the bill and answer.
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This is a case of extreme hardship, and such as might well induce a court to strain after some mode of redress. The cause has come on upon the bill and answer, and the material facts are these: The intestate, Lewis Rousmaniere, a merchant of Newport, being deeply and fraudulently insolvent, on the 4th of May, 1820. wrote a letter to the plaintiffs, who are merchants in Charleston, S. C., and with whom he had previously done business, containing an order for the purchase and shipment of 30 casks of rice on his own account, from Charleston to Newport. On the 6th of May,…
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