MAGNIAC ET AL. v. THOMSON


56 U.S. 281 (1853)

15 How. 281

HOLLINGSWORTH MAGNIAC, DANIEL SMITH MAGNIAC, AND WILLIAM JARDINE, LATE TRADING UNDER THE FIRM OF MAGNIAC & COMPANY, APPELLANTS, v. JOHN R. THOMSON.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued here by Mr. E. Ingersoll and Mr. C. Ingersoll, for the appellants, and by Mr. John M. Read and Mr. Cadwallader, for the appellee.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The appellants, by their bill in the Circuit Court, alleged that, being creditors of the appellee in a very large amount of money previously lent and advanced to him, they, in the year 1828, instituted their action for its recovery on the law side...

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