Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors, 1826

Comstock v. Apthorpe

Comstock v. Apthorpe
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · Decided September 15, 1826 · Golden, Savage, Senator, Woodworth
8 Cow. 386

Counsel

21 J. Oalchy, for the appellants, and, 8. M. Hopkins, for the respondents.

Comstock v. Apthorpe

Opinion of the Court

Woodworth, J., and Savage, Oh. J.,

delivered opinions, the result of which was, that the injunction should have been dissolved by the court of chancery, in which Sutherland, J., concurred.

Golden, Senator,

delivered an opinion, in which he supported the chancellor’s decision throughout.

On the question being put, the vote stood as follows:

For affirmance, Burt, Burrows, Golden, Cramer, Dudley, Earll, Ellsworth, Gardiner, Greenly, Keyes, Lefferts, Lynde, Mallory, M’Miehael and Wright, Senators.

For afflrn>i anee 16.

*386-1For reversal, in respect to the refusal to dissolve the in junction by the court of chancery, Bowman, Bray ton, Haight, McIntyre, Morgan, Bedfield, Wilkeson, Wooster, Senators,- and Savage, .Oh. J., and Sutherland, and Wood-worth, Justices. -

reversal.

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