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FRO vines OF C4IADA,} LOW EH CANADA \ In the Quemi'a Beneh. urruL SH.) {Ik/endtmt in the Omrt Below.) AFFBLLAKT. ANO {FMntif in Cmtrt Below.) BISFONDmr. APPELLANT*S CASE. THE Jadgment from which this Appeal is instituted, was rendered by the Snperior Court sitting in the District of Ottawa, on the 4th February, 1857. The Respondent, as sole Assignee of the Estate of Jacob Dennison, sued the Appellant for X215 16h. 8d., and in his Declaration, his title is set forth substantially as Ibllows : Jacob Dennison became a bankrupt on the 26th February, 1844. At a meeting of the creditors held on the 13th March, 1844, the Respondent and Andrew Cowan were chosen Assignees, accepted the office and gave the required notices. At a special meeting of the creditors, on the 26th June, 1S50, it is stated that Anifaew Cowan resigned, and the Respondent was named sole Assignee. At the same meeting, the creditors having fiiiled to name another in his stead, it was ordered by the Court that the Respondent should remain sole Assignee ; the latter thereupon accepted the office and gave the requir<>d notice. The Declaration then avers, that the Appellant Mras indebted to Jacob l>ennison before he became a bankrupt, in j£215 16s. 2d. for goods sold, &c., and concludes accordingly. To this action, the Appellant pleaded — Ist. A defnue aufonds en droit — and 2nd. Et defttue aufonde en fait. Under his defense en droit, the Appellant contended, that the Respon- dent's declaration did not contain the allegations of facts necessary in law, to vest in him, as sole Assignee, the Estate of Jacob Dennison : That it is not the choice of Assignees by the creditors, nor the acceptance by them of such office, that vests the Estate in them ; but, on the contrary, it is an in- strument such as is described in the Statute 7 Vic. cap. 10, sec. 30, by which it is enacted : — ** That as soon as such acceptance shall be signified to the Judge or ** Commissioner, as aforesaid, he shall, by an instrument under his hand'and " seal, declare the choice or aj^intment of such Assignees, and their accept- I- t4&U it' "aiice; uud the miitl iiiAtniincat tiliaU be?|KMited,-->«iHl> the other shall bo de- *' UHirel. tot tho AMi^ees ; and cither of such duplicates purporting to bo " under such hand and seal, dhall be received in all Courts in this Province, " q«i|ynniik/nMcvi{tMffe»tlUlt'tlM saline was executed on the day in which " it- |^^rpoJrts (o banr dale, and that the Assif nees named therein, were duly " choffon and appointed, and acce|ited the office, and of their authority to " bring and defend actions in that character." The declaration having made no mention of such an instrument, it «^l(Urly ctoiM not cstmbliiili; pHmm fii^i^- right of the Assignees to suo'iu that caimcity. Then the 31st sec. of 7 Vic, cnp. 10, enncts, ** That the said instni- " luent so signed and sealed, us uforcmid, shall vest and be construed to " vcHt in the Assigiiet>H named therein, all the ffoperty of the Bankrupt," &r. The Respondent not bnving deolarctl upon the instmment deseribfd in (his Mtatute, his netion wants the only basis which conld possibly vest in the H espowhrnt ant 1 Andrew Cowah, the bu hie rupt Estate of the said Jacob Ilennison ; ond, coikvqnently, a material link (« wanting in the Ne^imn- denf H Htle, as disclo«, thf said creditors may, in niannei reforo mentioned, choose other *' Assignees in iheir place, who shall notify their acc<^tanee, and obtain lii«> " same kind of instnunrnt from the Jwbfe ob Comminioner, and give notitc " IhereoC as liie original Assignees are requtreil to do; and all the Estate ttl " Ihe Bankrapt not before lawfuHy disposed 4if, shall forthwith and hencefohli " become vested in such new Assignees, us if tiK'y had bi>cn originalh " elected or qipointed as aforesaid." Nolhinst in the d(M:lamtion rbews that Ihe RespondenI even did obtain the instrument described above, the only legal title which could give him authorily t<» sue as sole Assignee. Nutwithstauding these omissions, the A|>p«llHnl'i» demuier was dis- missed, and the case fixed for evidence. At enqtitt*, Iho Respondent fitiled to produce the documents above den- ciibed, under the hand nrid seal of the Judgi? or Commissioner of Bunknipl- cy, tlie only raouns, as tlie Appellant contends, by which the Respondenl'.- tith could be nuide out. To I'stablish Ihe original debt by the A|>|iellant to IliMinison, he exa- mined one witness, Juhu Murpliy, — this witness being uuHble to prove the 'Icmnnd m M»t forth in the bill of particula.-s, stated thai «•» the 2 1st June. I«12, thi-n' WHS a h»hnir nl ^IS.*) IBi*. lOd. due IVnnison bv ihe App'llaul. lobtuiii [-(• him IS 'cd as n debt from the Appel- bint to Dennison. The A|^llant contei^s, inasmuch as the Respondent l^as established by hiM owti evidence on Itis own exai>iination, that before Dennison became a Bankrupt, he had received from tic Appellant a nego- tiable instruipent dr bill, in payment of thiit stim, the Respondent conid not ill law recover upo»tho original cMisi^cretion, without: proving that the bill dr draft was dishonored, or that it was in the ^andii of the Respondent. The documents described in the 31st and 32nd sections of 7 Vic. cap. 10, aro so obviously the only possible evidence (hat could establish the re- raaining two links in the Respondent's chain of title, accortling to the express words of the Statute : And their absence from the proof of record, so fatal an omission of the most material evidence, that it is difficult to imagine what reasons the Respondent can urge in favor of the judgment in his favor under these circumstanccsi. PETER AYLEN, Attorney for Ap|n'll«nt. Aylnicr, Slst Septemlier, 1857.