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5 N.H. 538

Hudson v. Hunt

Superior Court of New Hampshire

Decided November 15, 1831

Superior Court of New Hampshire · decided 1831-11-15

Fisk, the trustee in this ease, disclosed, in his answers to the interrogatories, that lie and Joab Hunt had the use of a brick yard, belonging to C. Hunt, the principal, during the summer of the year 1829, for which they agreed to pay to the said Caleb Hunt the sum of §70, in bricks ; which sum still remains due and unpaid ; that the trustee, at the close of the summer of the year 1829, purchased all the right of the said Joab Hunt in the bricks, which they had made in the…

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1909

3 state decisions

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Decided 1831-11-15

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¶1P ie K‘‘d°d i]>r.< Le who holds goods as a pledge, cnnnoi. be heb1 ~s *kc truth ce cf i ion veho pledged the goo'V Too ¡.¡lotee c-noet, thereine. be charged in this case, on account cf ihe goods he holds in his hands.

¶2It is also settled, as a general rule, that one of Ino joint debtors cannot be charged as a irrs.ec, unless the other debtor is joined with him ir the proco.'S. And v. e see no reason, why the general role should not gave n the decision of this case. Foi, t.ePvhVi-aiuing the agreement betwen the trustee and .Soar Hunt, that d.-' trustee should pay the rent to Celeb Hunt, *hc reel f-::il remained their joint debt. It does not appeal ⅛ >1 OrlP1 ever agreed to take ihe trustee as Lis pole cVl/.c'- rum discharge Joab, or that he has any lemedy ío’* il e rent against the trustee alone. The tru&íoe ij not diaree.. Ijle, then, on account of the rent.

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