Case Name: Dumont and others vs. Nicholson and others
Court: New York Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1846-10-06
Citations: 2 Barb. Ch. 71
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dumont and others vs. Nicholson and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Barbour's Chancery Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 71–72

Head Matter:
Dumont and others vs. Nicholson and others.
It is irregular to insert fractions of a cent in a master’s report.
This was a motion for a decree, in a mortgage case, upon a master’s report showing that the sum of $>190,22^ was due to the complainant.
J. Rhoades, for complainants.

Opinion:
The Chancellor
said that the statute required all computations to be in dollars and cents; and that it was therefore. irregular to insert fractions of a cent in a master's report. And he directed the ¿d of a cent to be stricken out, and that the decree be entered for the balance only, in dollars and cents.