Buel v. Street
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
THE respondents filed their bill in the court of chancery on the 1st of June, 1811, against the appellants. It appeared from the bill, that the appellants were appointed commissioners, by the act of the legislature, passed the 22d of March, 1811, incorporating the stockholders of the Middle District Bank, for the purpóse of opening books, on the first Tuesday of May, 1811, in Poughkeepsie and Kingston, for the subscription of shares to the bank, at 25 dollars each; 2 1-2 per…
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THE respondents filed their bill in the court of chancery on the 1st of June, 1811, against the appellants. It appeared from the bill, that the appellants were appointed commissioners, by the act of the legislature, passed the 22d of March, 1811, incorporating the stockholders of the Middle District Bank, for the purpóse of opening books, on the first Tuesday of May, 1811, in Poughkeepsie and Kingston, for the subscription of shares to the bank, at 25 dollars each; 2 1-2 per cent on each share to be deposited at the time of subscription, and the whole number of shares not to exceed 20,000,…
1Opinion of the CourtYates, J.
This is an appeal from an order of the 23d of January last, of the court of chancery, to attach Jesse Buel and nine other persons, for a contempt in disobeying an injunction of that court. A motion has been made to quash the petition of appeal, on the ground that it cannot be sustained on such an order.
By the 8th section of- the statute, regulating the proceedings in this court, in virtue of the 32d article of the constitution, it is *447enacted, that all persons aggrieved by any sentence, judgment, decree or order of the court of chancery, may appeal from the same to this court.
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