67 N.H. 500
38 A 120
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided December 5, 1893
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1893-12-05
Appeal, from a decree of the judge of probate. Pacts found by the court. Page & Dowe, insolvent debtors, had assigned certain contracts to Van Wart & Co. as collateral security for a debt. Van Wart & Co. assigned tbe contracts to one Knapp, who put them into the hands of the defendant, an attorney at law, for collection.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1928
1 state decisions
Relies on Dodge v. McNeil
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Decided 1893-12-05
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¶1 The probate court had no authority to make the decree. It could do nothing except to take the examination of the person complained of, to serve as a basis for other proceedings, by suit or otherwise, in the proper court. Dodge v. McNeil, 62 N. H. 168.
¶2 Motion denied.