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- Title: Harrison v. Sterry and Others
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1809
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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THIS was an appeal from a decree of the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, in a suit in equity, in which Richard Harrison was complainant, and the following parties defendants, viz. 1. The United States. 2. Sterry and others, assignees of H. M. Bird and Benjamin Savage under a British commission of bankruptcy. 3. Aspinwall and others, assignees of Robert Bird, under an American commission of bankruptcy. 4. Several American creditors who had attached the effects of Bird, Savage & Bird, in South Carolina. 5. Several British creditors who had also attached the same effects. And, 6. Thomas Parker, who, by consent of the creditors, had been appointed by the court of common pleas in South Carolina, an agent for all the parties concerned, to collect and receive the debts due to Bird, Savage & Bird, which had been attach and when received, to hold the same till the further order of the court. The question was, how those attached effects should be distributed.