Case ID: sarat-ch-sent_5/html/0022-05.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the matter of Silas Ingraham, a creditor of the firms of Ingraham, Bolles & Ingraham, and Ingraham & Case.
    
    Jv 'Wilkinson', ior petitioner f
    O. L. Barbour, for fl. G. HaF* rison.
    PeUtU n for payment ol .t dobi out of a r'uml hi llielhai (5* of -i receiver:
   Petition by S. Ingraham, a stranger to the suit of H. G. Harrison v. Jonas Ingraham and D. Bolles, to have a demand which he has against a firm in which the defendants were partners, paid out of the funds in the hands of the receiver in that cause. The chancellor denied the application, with $12 costs ; on the groiind that the court Has no jurisdiction to interfere in this summary vteiy, even if the petitioner had a preferablfe claim to the funds in question. That if he had any equitable claim to any funds which aré affected by the decree, he should file a bill in this court making the complainants and the several members of the firm defendants. But that he would not be in d situation to file such a bill until he hud exhausted his remedy at law against his debtors, by judgment and fe&ecution."