| Joseph White Moulton - Equity pleading and procedure - 1829 - 390 pages
...multifarious, but in reality forming a connected series of acts of the same nature, tending to the same injury, and in which all the defendants were more or less concerned, though not jointly in each acl, may be joined. (4) The interest required by the general rule must be material, but the rule is... | |
| Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 828 pages
...authorities cited in the latter, as decisive for the respondents. The result of that case is, that a bill may be filed against several persons, relative...less, concerned, though not jointly, in each act. The want of alleging that the respondents' purchased upon the execution as administrators, does not... | |
| William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 678 pages
...their respective liens, or rutably, as the case might be. Briiikerlioff v. Brown. G JC Н.Ш. Г>77. A bill may be filed against several persons, relative to matters of the same nature, terming a connected series of acts, nil intended to defraud and injure the plaintiffs, and in which... | |
| Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1858 - 610 pages
...by the fraudulent intent, and terminating in the deception and injury of the plaintiffs. There was a connected series of acts, all intended to defraud and injure the plaintiffs, and in which all of the defendants were more or less concerned, although not jointly in each act, and the chancellor... | |
| Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Civil procedure - 1859 - 580 pages
...of their common debtor, which he had fraudulently conveyed; and that the bill might be filed against persons relative to matters of the same nature, forming...or less concerned, though not jointly in each act. In the case of Fellows a. Fellows (4 Cow., 682), the bill charged that the several defendants, in combination... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 662 pages
...fraudulently conveyed, and that the bill might be filed against persons relative to matters of the aame nature, forming a connected series of acts, all intended...or less concerned, though not jointly in each act. In the case of Fellows et al. v. Fellows el al. (4 Cow., 682), the bill charged that the several defendants,... | |
| Michigan. Court of Chancery, Ebenezer Burke Harrington - Court rules - 1872 - 504 pages
...same drama. A bill may be sustained against different persons relative to matters of the same nature, in which all the defendants were more or less concerned, though not jointly in each act. Should it prove in the event that any of these defendants were not partners in the concern at the time... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 720 pages
...wrong done to the town. The rule in equity, as I understand it, is this ; that an action may be brought against several persons relative to matters of the...series of acts all intended to defraud and injure the plaintiff, and in which all the defendants were more or less concerned, though not jointly in each... | |
| Seymour Dwight Thompson - Corporation law - 1879 - 584 pages
...stock.5 1 Brinkerhoff v. Brown, 6 Johns. Ch. 139. The general doctrine of this case, namely, that " a bill may be filed against several persons relative...or less concerned, though not jointly in each act," was recognized and applied in Fellows v. Fellows, 4 Cow. 682. 2 Allen v. Montgomery R. Co., 11 Ala.... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - Civil procedure - 1879 - 728 pages
...selling her property. (Smith agt. Smith, ante, 816.) 2. The general rule in equity pleading is, that a bill may be filed against several persons relative...defendants were, more or less, concerned, though not guilty, in each act. (Garner agt. Thorn, ante, 452.) 8. The Code has not essentially altered the rules... | |
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