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IVES v. THE MERCHANTS BANK OF BOSTON

53 U.S. 159 (1851)

12 How. 159

MOSES B. IVES, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE MERCHANTS BANK OF BOSTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued in this court by Mr. Ames for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Pitman, upon a brief of Tillinghast & Bradlee, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

At November term, 1843, in the Circuit Court of Rhode Island, the Merchants Bank of Boston recovered against the New Jersey Steam Navigation Company, by decree in an admiralty suit, the sum of $22,224 and costs of suit. From which decree the respondents appealed to this court; and on December 14, 1843, Moses B. Ives, the present plaintiff in error, became bound as surety...

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