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25 F. Cas. 1067

United States v. Fields

U.S. District Court

Decided May 26, 1859

U.S. District Court · decided 1859-05-26

This was a bill in equity, filed by the United States against George A. Gardiner in his lifetime, and the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. A subpoena and an injunction were served upon the trust company, as the depository of certain moneys sought to be recovered by the plaintiffs in this suit, the ground of the suit being that those moneys had been fraudulently obtained by Gardiner, under the Mexican claims commission.

Decided 1859-05-26

HALL, District Judge.

¶1As it appears that Gardiner, the defendant in the original suit, never appeared therein, and was never even served with process, I am of the opinion that a bill of revivor is not proper, and that the application for the order sought by the attorney for the United States must be denied. The following authorities are, I think, decisive of the case, and they will sufficiently indicate the course proper to be pursued: 3 Daniell, Ch. Prac. 1673, 1698, 1707, 1708; 2 Barb. Ch. Prac. 36, 37; Crowfoot v. Mander, 9 Sim. 396; Stewart v. Nicholls, Tam. 307; Hardy v. Hull, 14 Sim. 21; Foster v. Foster, 16 Sim. 637.

¶2The motion is denied, but without prejudice to any future application for leave to file a supplemental bill, or a bill in the nature of a supplemental bill, or to any motion which the United States or the defendant may think proper to make.

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