MARSHALt KEO 1064 .L443 f ^1- \'A ^ i '• -^^'' 'W^ '1 W^mSK^^M'^^i^r'. ,.'^^r^ ^1 Olnrnpll ICaui ^rlionl ICthrarg iHatraljall lEquttg (Hollerttott (Stft of i. 31. iHaraljall, ILIG. S. 1394 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924084263734 FOEMS AND- PRECEDENTS OF PLEADINGS AND PROCEEDINGS IN C|e €mxt 0f C|aiiar5 for Ontario* BY WILLIAM LEGGO, OF OSGOODE HALL, BARRISTKR-AT-LAW, LATB MASTER AT HAMILTON. SECOND EDITION. TOEONTO: E. CAESWELL, 26 & 28 ADELAIDE STEEET EAST ]876. (o^S7l PRINTED BY HBMTER, ROSE AND CO., WELLINGTON STREET, TORONTO. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. This work may be considered as the third volume of Leggo's Chancery Practice now in the hands of the profession ; though it is framed for use either as a companion volume to the Practice, or as an independent work. It will be observed that the arrangement of the forms differs from that of the first edition, and follows more nearly the ordinary course of procedui-e in suits, which it is hoped will be found an improvement, and facilitate reference to the work. All the forms have been framed to meet the practice in this Province, and all matter based on that of England only has been carefully eliminated. Many forms, not appearing in the first edition, have been added, and much care has been taken to make the list of bills as complete as possible. This edition has been thoroughly revised by George S. Holme - sted, Esq., the Registrar of the Court of Chancery, whose position and experience have peculiarly qualified him for the task. Hamilton, July, 1876. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PLEADINGS. [N.B. — The. numbers refer to the numbe>-s of the forms, and not to the pages.] Seotion I. — Style of cause — Modes of describing informants and plaintiffs — Certificates on informations, &o 1-28 Forms of Bills, &o 29-103 Section II. — Forms of Demurrers 104-112 Section III.— Forms of Disclaimers 113,114 Section IV. — Forms of Answers — Dispute notes — Replication 115-167 CHAPTER II. ENDORSEMENTS ON PLEADINGS, WRITS, &C. Section I. — Endorsement of name and address on pleadings, writs, &c 168-173 Notice of change of address 174 Notices to be endorsed onO.C. Bills 176-179 Section II. — Notices of filing pleadings, affidavits, &c 181-5 CHAPTER III. SERVICE OF BILLS. Affidavits of service 186-190,192-4 Acceptance of service by solicitor 191 CHAPTER IV. Briefs 195-200 CHAPTER V. HEARINGS. Hearings 201-18 Appeals and rehearings , 219-227 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. EVIDENCE. Section I.— Admissions 228,229 " IT.— Documentary evidence which proves itself 230-9 «« III.— '•■ " which does not prove itself 240-7 " IV.— Proving exhibits at hearing— Procuring attendance of wit- nesses 248-50 " V Oaths and affirmations before the Court 252-6 " " before Examiner 257-61 " VI.— Notice of reading aflldavits- Enlarging time for taking evidence, &c 262-3 " VII. — Hx parte examinations 264-7 "VIII. — Viva voce evidence 268-91 ' ' IX. — Examination of witnesses de bene esse 292-7 " X. — Demurrers by witnesses 298-9 " XI. — Affidavits, oaths, jurats, affirmations, &c 300-333 CHAPTER VII. DECREES AND ORDERS. Section I. — Formal parts of Decrees and Orders, and precedents of praecipe Decrees, &c. — Minutes of Decrees 334-346 " II. — Drawing up, passing and entering. Decrees and Orders.. 347-353 " III. — Enrolment of Decrees, &c 354^5 " IV. — Rectifying Decrees 356 " v.— Enforcing Decrees and Orders 357-372 " VI. — Decrees Nisi — Making absolute and motions to set aside.. 373-4 CHAPTER VIII. TRIALS OF QUESTIONS OF FACT, AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES. Section I. — Trials and assessments before the Court, with or without a jury 375-80 " II.— New trials 381 CHAPTER IX. INTERLOCUTORY PROCEEDINGS IN SUITS AND INCIDENTAL THERETO. Section I. — Formal parts of notices of motion 382-6 Formal partg of petitions.., 387-9 TABLE 01' CONTENTS. vii Section II. — Interlocuto-i-y Mofioiu aiid proceedings in Suits, d-c. Motions for security for costs — Bonds for security, &c... 390-407 Motions to sue in fwmd pauperis, &o 408-14 Motions to appoint and remove next friends and guardians ad litem to infants and other persons under disabi- lity 415-442 Motions for allowance of service of biUs 443-5 Motions for service of bUls by publication, and for taking bills so served pro confesso 446-51 Motions to amend bUls, to take amendments oflf the files, and for costs in consequence of amendments, &c. ...462-69 Motions to file amended, or supplemental answers 470-2 Petitions to amend Decrees, <&c 473-6 Motions to take proceedings taken without authority off files, or to strike out name of party, &c. , or stay pro- ceedings taken in name of infants, or married wo- men, &o 477-90 Motions to dismiss bUls, or stay proceedings in suits . ...491-513 Motions to compel election 514-8 Motions to set aside proceedings for irregularity 519 Motions for leave to rehear, or to appeal from report, and to stay proceedings pending rehearing 520-5 Motions to take proceedings off files, for scandal 526 Motions for time to answer, and to set aside Decrees or notes pro confesso 527-9 Motions for orders pro confesso 530-2 Motions relating to discovery and production of docu- ments 533-54 Motions to change venue 555-7 Motion for interim alimony 562-3 Motions for writs of arrest 564r-5 Abatement and Eevivor. — Proceedings on, and motions relating to 566-70 Supplemental statements 571-6 Motions for, and to dissolve and to enforce injunctions, &c 576-606 Motions for, and to discharge, stop orders, &c 607-616 Motions for receivers — Appointment of, and proceedings relating to, receivers 616-645 Payment of money into Court 646-9 Payment of money out of Court 650-667 Motions to commit for contempt in Master's office 668-673 Motions for production of pleadings, &c., at Assizes 674 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS. Motions to enlarge time for redemption 675-6 Motions for appointment of new day 677-80 Motions for final orders 681-688 Motions to open foreclosure 689-90 Motions as to title, and for payment of purchase money in specific performance cases 691-3 Motions to rescind contracts in specific performance cases 694^6 Motions to invest funds in Court or in hands of trustees. 697-699 Changing solicitor, &c 700-2 Sales. — Motions for leave to bid 703 Motions to enforce contract 704^5 Motions to discharge or substitute purchasers 706-11 Motions for compensation 712 Motions for delivery of possession on sales 713-7 Motions for delivery of possession in mortgage cases 718-20 Motions for vesting orders 721-2 Motions to dispense with payment of purchase money into Court 723-6 Motions on behalf of trustees as to management of estate. 727-36 Motions for appointment of new trustees 737-9 Motions for interpleader orders 741-8 Motions to garnishee debts, &c 749-52 Motions to examine and commit debtors 753-6 CHAPTER X. PROCEEDINGS ORIGINATING BEFORE THE JUDGE OR REFEREE IN CHAMBERS. Section I. — Administration of estates on motion 757-63 Section II. — Sales of infants' estates 764-71 Section III. — Appointment and removal of guardians 772-81 Section IV. — Maintenance and advancement and management of property of wards of Court 782-8 Section V. — Marriage and settlement of property of wards of Court 789-796 Section VI.— Petitions by trustees to pay trust fund into Court. ... 797-9 Section VII. — Petitions by trustees for advice 800 Section VIII. — Proceedings relating to lunatics 801-12 CHAPTER XI. Special cases gi o or TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX CHAPTER XII. AKBITRATION. Proceedings in arbitrations 827-840 CHAPTER XIII. PROCEEDINGS UNDER 6 ANNE, C. 18, AND " TRUSTEE ACT, 1850." Section I. — Proceedings for production of ceshd que vie under 6 Anne, C.18 841-t Section II.— Proceedings under ' ' Trustee Act, 1850." 845-847 CHAPTER XIV. APPEALS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, PRIVY COUNCIL AND SUPREME COURT. Section I. — Forms of Bonds, ifcc, on appeal to Court of Appeal... 848-850 Section II. — Appeals to Privy Council 851-3 Section III. — Appeals to Supreme Court 854-866 CHAPTER XV. PROCEEDINGS IN JLiSTKR'S OFFICE. Section I. — Administration Suits. — Advertisements for creditors — Proceedings by creditors — Affidavits proving claims, &c 867-889 Warrants and underwriting 890-1 Production, direction for 892 Advertisements for claimants — Affidavits as to heirs, next of kin, &c. — Legacies and incumbrances there- on, &c 893-8 Executors', Administrators' and Trustees' accounts, and affidavits verifying 899-909 Surcharge 910-11 INIaster'a order for serving parties with decree, and endorsements on office copy of decree — Service of, and proof of same 912-111 Request to taxing officer to moderate bill 920 Section II. — Foreclosure and Redemption Suits. — Notices T 921-2 Affida-iats of mortgagee and others, proving claims 923-8 Section III. — Partwrship Suits. — Affidavit of accountant as to re- sult of investigation of accounts 929 Master's Report in 930 X TABLE OF CONTENTS. Section IV. — Appointment of New Trustees. — Affidavit of fitness — Consent and affidavit verifying OSl-S" Section V. — Proceedings relating to Sales. — Notice to defendant to conduct sale — Advertisement of sale — Affidavits as to description of property — mode of lotting — fitness of auctioneer — place of sale, &c., and for fixing reserved bids — Conditions of sale — Directions to auctioneer — Affidavits of result of sale and prov- ing publication of advertisements — and Report on sale 934^950 Demand of abstract — Abstract — Objections to ab- stract — Supplemental abstract — Answers to objec- tions — Requisition on title and answers thereto, &c 950-63 Section VI. — Master's certificates 964-6- Section VII. — Master's reports 967-79' CHAPTER XVI. SOLICITOES. Section I. — Authority to prosecute or defend — Consent to act as relator, next friend, or guardian 980-991 Section II.— Change of solicitor or agent 992-1000 Section III. — Striking oflf roll 1001-1003 Section IV.— Delivery and taxation of biUs of costs 1004-1018 CHAPTER XVII. COSTS. Section I.— Tariff of fees and disbursements, Lower Scale 1019-20 Section II.— Tariff of disbursements, Higher Scale 1021-3 Tariff of Counsel and Solicitors' fees. Higher Scale 1024 Section III.— Tariff of fees and disbursements in Supreme Court 1025 CHAPTER XVIII. QUIETING OP TITLES. Petitions, Affidavits, Certificates, Advertisements, TSo- tices, &c 1026-1047 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY. CHAPTER 1.— Pleadings. Section I. — Forms of Bills (a). 1. Style of Cause. The style of the cause is a collection of the names of the 1. plaintiffs, and of the defendants : e.g. ®*5"^ °' •^*"^^- Between John Jones and William Brown, And Plaintiffs, James Smith, and Her Majesty's Attorney- General for Ontario, Defendants. Where the plaintiff sues on behalf of himself and others, or is under disability, it is usual to state that fact in the title of the bill, and of the future proceedings in the cause ; as thus : — Between John Lee, on behalf of himself and all other the creditors of A.B., deceased - - plaintiff. Or, John Lee, an infant, by CD., his next friend, plaintiff. Or, John Lee, a person of unsound mind, by CD., the committee of his estate, and the said CD., plaintiffs. Or, John Lee, a person of unsound mind, not ^o found, by CD., his next friend - plaintiff. Or, Jane Lee, wife of the defendant John Lee, by CD., her next friend ... plaintiff. (a) Pleadings and all other proceedings in a cause maybe written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, and where wholly printed, dates and eums occurring there- in are to be expressed by iigurew instead of words. Ord. 66. All pleadings and other proceedings, are to be written or printed, neatly and legibly, on good paper of the, ordinary foolscap size, and if printed, pica type leaded is to be used. The costs of pro- ceedings not cfmformingto this nde are dLsallowcd, and the Clerk of Records and ^'rits or Deputy Registrar is to refuse to file such proceeding. Ord 67. 2 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF Or, Her Majesty's Attorney-General for (the Pro- vince of Ontario or Dominion of Canada) Informant, and CD., plaintiff. It is not usual to state in the title of the bill that a de- fendant is under disability ; but after a guardian ad htem of such defendant has been appointed, it is usual to state that fact in the title of all future proceedings ; as thus :— James Styles, an infant, by Edward Styles, his OTardian. ^ Or, James Styles, a person of unsound mind, not so found, by Edward Styles, his guardian. Or, James Styles, and Amy the wife of the said James Styles, by Edward Styles, her guardian. 2. Add/ress. 2- To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. Address. ° FOKMS OF BILLS. 3. Modes of describing Informants and Plaintiffs in an Information or Bill (h). 3- Informing, sheweth unto your Lordships the Honour- witSaKia- able O.M., Her Majesty's Attorney-General for the Pro- *'"'*°'' vince of Ontario on behalf of Her Majesty, as follows : 4. Informing, ( addition), the official [Or, creditors'] assignee of the estate bankrupt. and effects of CD., an iasolvent, Sheweth as follows : The Bill of Complaint of A.B., of (residence and addi- ^duitind* tion), and CD., an infant, by the said A.B. [Or, by E.F., mfant. of (residence and addition], his next friend, Sheweth as foUows : The Bill of Complaint of A.B., an infant, by CD., oi j^^„^^^'„^^^ (residence and addition), his next friend, Sheweth asf™nd. follows : The BiU of Complaint of A.B., a person of unsound ^^.^^ ^^•,„„,ti, mind, by CD., of, &c., the committee of his estate, and the by committee. said CD., Sheweth as foUows : 4 FORMS AND PEECEDENTS OF „ ^1- The Bill of Complaint of A.B., a person of unsound Person of un- . , , „ , r\-^ r i • jn i_ n Ti sound or weak mmd, uot SO found [Or, a person oi weak mmdj, by O.U., mind^notao ^^ (residence and addition), his next friend, Sheweth as follows : H >, ■*■?• ^ The Bill of Complaint of A.B., of (residence and addi- Husbandand ... i ,^ i ■ -j. oi j.i i? 11 wile, jointly. twn), and C, nis Wife, oheweth as loiiows : Husbai?"aJone '^^^ ^^^ ^^ Complaint of A.B., of, cfcc, and C, the wife and^xrije by°"^' of the Said A.B., by E.F., of, tfcc, her next friend, Sheweth next friend. aS foUowS : Wife b^next '^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Complaint of C.B., the \vife of the defendant friend: hu.sband A.B., bv E.F., of, Sc, her next friend, sheweth as follows : a defendant. ((J) > J ' > > ' 21. The Bill of complaint of C.B., of {residence), the wife of nviiiter mor- A.B., late of (residence), who hath abjured the realm [Or, ""*• who is an alien enemy — or as Tfiay be], Sheweth as follows : ^^v , The Bill of Complaint of C.B., of (residence), the wife Same; husband ^at* i- • t \^ c* i • • -%• < residing abroad. 01 A.±J., who IS now residing at \j., out of the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, by E.F., of &c., her next friend, Sheweth as follows : 23. The Bill of Complaint of C.B., of (residence), the wife wifeasa/e™ ^f j^j^ ^f^ ^^^ suing as a /eme sole [Or, but who has obtained a statutory order for protection from her hus- band], Sheweth as follows : 4. Certificates to obtain Attorney-General's sanction to information. counse?fcertifi. ^ hereby certify that this information is proper for the «onbei?gp™p"r sanction of Her Majesty's Attorney-General. Dated this fortheinfor- day of 18 . mant's sanction. (OounseVs signature). 25. The like of I hereby certify that this information, as amended, is mTon! "■" proper for the sanction of Her Majesty's Attorney-Gen- eral; and that the amendments therein are not made for the purpose of delay. Dated this day of , 18—. (Counsel's signature). (d.) See now 36 Vic. k. 17, 8 9, Ont. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY— BILLS. 5 I hereby certify that A.B., the proposed relator in this . , 26. information, is a proper person to be such relator ; and flcate at awuty that he is competent to answer the costs thereof c'stl.'pverft^ I also certifjT that this is a true copy of the draft infor- ™sprii>t- mation, as settled and signed by Mr. C.D., as counsel for the informant. Dated this day of , 18 — . E.F., of d;c., Solicitor for relator. I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the draft ..■a^'^" amended information, as settled and signed by Mr. CD., fying reprint. as counsel for the informant. Dated ('tly performsd. parol a^eement partlYflerform- ,. -^, ed(j). In Chancery. Between — A. B Plaintiff, and C. D Defendant. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. TheBillofC.B, &c. Sheweth as follows : 1. The defendant C. D. being or pretending to be seized t%) For other forms, see Nos. 59, (58 and 91. 0') For another form see No. 90. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 11 in fee simple in possession of lot No — , in, &c., the plain- tiflF and the said C. D. on or about the day of- entered into a verbal agreement for the purchase by the plaintiff of the said lot of land at or for the price or sum of payable &c., with interest, and upon payment thereof a proper conveyance was to be executed of the said premises free from incumbrances. 2. The plaintiff was accordingly admitted and entered into possession of the said lot, and has continued in pos- session thereof ever since and is still in possession thereof 3. The plaintiff has made divers and considerable improvements thereon and has paid the sum of part of the said purchase money. •1. The plaintiff submits that under the circumstances aforesaid ihe said agreement has been partly performed so as to entitle the plaintiff to a specific execution thereof 5. The plaintiff made and caused to be made frequent applications to the said C. D. for the purpose of obtaining a specific execution of the said agreement but without effect. The plaintiff therefore prays : 1. That the said contract may be specifically performed by the said CD., the plaintiff being ready and willing and hereby offering to perform the same in all respects upon his part. 2. That the plaintiff may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may requii-e. And, &c. 35. To stay waste. 35. Bill to stay- in Chancery. Between — A. B Plaintiff, and C. D Defendant. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of A. B., &c. Sheweth as follows : 1. The plaintiff is and has been from before the acts here- inafter complained of until the present time seized in fee simple (or, as the case may be) under and by virtue of an. ,12 FORMS AND PKECEDENTS OF Indenture, &c., bearing date, &c., and made between, &c., of lot No—, &c. 2. The defendant CD. is in possession of the said lot as tenant for a term of years {or, as the case may be) of the plaintiff under and by virtue of an Indenture ot demise &c., bearing date, &c., and made between, &c. 3. The said defendant has since the day of committed waste upon the said lot by cutting down and removing from off the said lot and applying to his own use a large number of the timber and other trees standing, gTowing, and being thereon, and also by quarrying a large quantity of stone being on and part of the said lot, and by pulling down, &c., houses, &c. 4. The defendant continues and threatens and intends to continue to commit such waste as aforesaid, and other waste and destruction of the said lot, although frequently requested by the plaintiff to desist therefrom. The plaintiff therefore prays : 1. That the said C. D. may be restrained by the order and injunc- tion of this Honorable Court from committing such waste as afore- said, or any other waste, spoil, or destruction on the said premises, and may account for the waste already committed. 2. That the plaintiff may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require. And, &c. (k) 36. ^MsTn^the"^^^' ^^- ^° ®**2/ trespass in the nature of waste. nature of waste. In Chancery. Between — A.B Plaintiff, and CD Defendant. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of A. B., &c. Sheweth as foUows : 1. The plaintiff was at the time of the acts hereinafter complained of and has been since up to the present time (ft.) For another form, see No. 58. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 1^ the owner in fee simple {or as the case may be) in posses- sion of lot No. &c., xmder and by virtue of an Indenture, Sic, and made, &c. 2. The defendant 0. D. has from the day of imtil the present time continually trespassed upon the said lot by cutting down and remoN-ing from off the said lot and applying to his own use divers valuable timber and other trees which were growing, standing, and being on the said lot. 3. The defendant continues and threatens and intends to continue to ti-espass on the said lot in like manner, al- though frequently requested by the plaintiff to desist therefrom. The plaintiff therefore pj-ays : 1. That the said defendant maj' be restrained by the order and injunc- tion of this Honorable Court from committing the acts aforesaid, and other acts of a like natm-e, and may account for the value of the timber and other trees cut down, removed and applied to his own use as afoi'e- said. 2. That the plaintiff may have such fm-ther or other relief as the nature of the case may require. And, &e. (I.) 37. Bill by a person entitled to an equitable estate or 37. interest and claiming to use the name of his trustee m ^E '" "*^"™^ . J- .c I • T T J-, 0' trustee in prosecuting an action jor his sole oenefit. prosecutmgan action. In Chancer}'. Between— A. B Plaintiff, and C. D Defendant. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery The BiU of Complaint of A.B., &c. Sheweth as follows : 1. Under an Indenture dated, &c., and made between, &c., plaintiff is entitled to an equitable estate or interest in certain property therein described or referred to, and the defendant C. D. is a trustee for the plaintiff of the said property. I.) For another form, see No. 58 14 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 2. The plaintifiF being desirous to prosecute an action at law against in respect of such property, has made, or caused to be made, am application to the said defendant to allow the plaintiff to bring such action in his name, and has offered to indemnify the defendant against the costs of such action. 3. The said defendant refuses to allow his name to be used by the plaintiff for the purposes of the said action. The plaintiff therefore prays : 1. That he may be allowed to pro- secute the said action in the name of the said defendant C. D., the plaintiff hereby offering to indemnify him against the costs of such action. 1. That the plaintiff may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require. And, &c. Biutof^oint ^* '^^ appoint a new trustee in a case where there new trustee is no power in the vnstrument creating the trust to ap- point new trustees, or where the power cannot he exercised. In Chancery. Between — A. B Plaintiff, and C. D Defendant. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The BiU of Complaint of A. B., &c. Sheweth as follows : 1. Under an Indenture dated, &c., and made between, &c. {or the will of), the plaintiff is interested in certain trust property therein mentioned or referi'ed to. 2. The defendant C. D. is the present trustee (or the real or personal representative of the last surviving trustee) of such property. 3. There is no power in the said Indenture {or will, &c.) to appoint new trustees {or the power in said will, &c., to •appoint new trustees cannot be exercised). The plaintiff therefore prays : 1. That new trustees may be ap- pointed of the said trust property, in PROCEEDINGS IK CHANCERY — BILLS. 15 the place of {or to act in conjunction ■with) the said CD. 2. That the plaintiff may have such farther or other relief as the nature of the case may require. And, &c. 39. Bill by infant heir against widow and adminis- 39. tratrixfor administration and for maintenance of plain- hei at Sw"* ,tiff, next of kin, •^ ' agamst the widow and ad- Title— and address of bill : see ante, No. 29. "enei4?atoinls': The Bill of Complaint of J. S., of (fee, an infant by J. I., S'aad'p*" of cfcc, his next friend, the above-named plaintiff, ^onai estate, and cniij^ii to make plain- bheweth as toiioWS : tits a ward oJ 1. The plaintiff's father J. S., late of (fee, yeoman, died °™"- '"* on, <&c., intestate : leaving the plaintiff (who was born on, dr.), his only child, his heir at law, and his sole next of kin ; and leaving the plaintiff's mother, the above-named defendant M. S., his widow. 2. Letters of administration of his personal estate and effects have been granted to the defendant by the Surro- gate Court of the County of, c&c. 3. The said J. S. died seized of and entitled to real estate of great value : which has descended on the plain- tiff' ; and possessed of and entitled to personal estate : to which, or to a share of which, the plaintiff is entitled. i. The said J. S. died indebted to various persons, and his debts have not been paid (and the personal estate is insuffioient for the payment of the same). ■5. The defendant claims to be entitled to a distributive share of the personal estate, and to dower out of the real estate, of the intestate. The plaintiff prays as follows : That the real and personal estate of the intestate J. S. may be administered, and proper provi- sion made for the plaintiff's maintenance and education, by and under the direction of this Honorable Court: and that the plaintiff may have such further protection and relief as his case requires, (n). (m) The following forms froni No. 39 to No. 45 inclusive, are, with slight variations, taken from Daniell's Foims. (n) The practitioner will find it needful to exereisf caution in advising a bill to be filed for administration. UTienever the object of the proceedings can be attained by means of an application under the 12 Vic. by petition for sale of infant's estate, that course should be adopted : See Fenwick v. Fetiwick, 20 Gt- 381. Good/elloio v. Rennie, ib. 425. So also, unless there be something special about the case, an administration order should he obtained in Chambers. If a bill be unnecessarily filed the plaintiff may be visited with the extra costs occasioned thereby. 16 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 40. 40, Bill by married woman for administration, and Tied woman, for for execution of trusts of will. administration of real and per- sonal estate of a j^^fig — (ji^n^ address of hill: see ante, No. 29. testator. *' The Bill of Complaint of E. M. C. of, Sc, the wife of the defendant J. C, by H. J. A., of, <&c., her next friend, the above-named plaintiff, Sheweth as follows : 1. E. A., late of, <&c., esquire, deceased, was at the time of his death seized of, or entitled to, certain freehold and copyhold messuages, lands and hereditaments ; and was also possessed of personal estate to a considerable amount. 2. The said E. A. duly made and executed his last will and testament, dated, . and E. D. adopted the name, style and firm " P. D. and Son," and by that name advertised the said medicine and trade-mark in manner aforesaid, and con- tinued in manner aforesaid, at Providence aforesaid, to manufacture the said medicine, and to sell the same in Canada West and elsewhere, and to apply thereto the said trade-mark of " Pain-Killer," and to sell the same by said name in the same way and manner in Canada West and elsewhere, as it is hereinbefore stated, that the said P. D. had done prior to the said sale and transfer to the said E. D. 5. On the 2nd day of May, 1862, the said P. D. died intestate, at Providence aforesaid, having at the time of his decease his fixed place of abode and domicile at Provi- dence aforesaid, leaving him surviving his widow E. D., the said E. D., his only son, and the said plaintiff, S. D. D., his only daughter, and no other child or children, or the descendants of any child, and by the laws of the said State of Rhode Island, in that case and under the said state of facts, the property in the said trade-mark and business thereby, under the circumstances stated in this paragraph, became absolutely vested in the said plaintiff, E. D., as surviving partner of the said P. D., and (on the appointment of said E. D. as administrator of said P. D., as hereinafter mentioned) as the legal personal representative of the said P. D., and the said plaintiffs and R. D. were 46 FOKMS AND PRECEDENTS OF the sole next of kin of said P. D., and as such entitled to the whole of the property and effects of the said P. D., and being so entitled the plaintiffs purchased from the said R. D. all her share and interest in the said estate, business and trade-mark of the said P. D., and the said R. D., by deed poU, dated 1st day of January, 1863, duly con- veyed and assigned to the plaintiffs all her said share and interest in the said estate of the said P. D., and in the said trade-mark, and the said plaintiffs then agreed to, and did become jointly the owners of the said trade-mark, and of the whole of the estate and effects of the said P. D., and the plaintiffs continued the said business of the said firm of P. D. and Son, under the same name, and also con- tinued the manufacture and sale of said medicines and the use of said trade-mark, by the same means and in the same way and manner in every respect as the said P. D. and E. D. had done, and they still continue the same. 6. On the 10th day of June, 1862, the said E. D. was duly appointed administrator of the personal estate and effects of the said P. D. by the Municipal Court of the City of Providence aforesaid, within the jurisdiction of the said Court. 7. The plaintiffs are now the sole and absolute owners of the said business of manufacturers of the said medicine called " Pain- Killer," and sole and absolute owners of the said trade-mark called " Pain-Killer," applied thereto in manner aforesaid, and carry on the said manufacture and use of said trade-mark in manner aforesaid, at the said factory, in Providence, where the said P. D. carried on the same, and the said medicine of the plaintiffs is stiQ called and known, and by them sold throughout the whole of Canada and elsewhere as aforesaid as " Pain-Killer," and the said trade-mark or name of "Pain-Killer," is still applied thereto as a trade-mark in the way and manner aforesaid, and the same is sold by the said plaintifis and dealers in said article by the said trade-mark "Pain- Killer," and save in the illegal and fraudulent way and manner in the ninth paragraph of this Bill set forth, there is no other medicine to which the trade-mark of " Pain- Killer " is applied, and whenever medicine called " Pain- KiUer " is asked for, the said medicine of the plaintiffs is the article thereby intended, and the said medicine and trade-mark stiU preserve their said high reputation and value. 8. On the 22nd day of March, 1866, the plaintiffs caused their said trade-mark of " Pain-Killer," as applied to their said medicine, and the bottles, wrappers and packages con- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 47 taining the same, and used by them in manner aforesaid, to be registered as a trade-mark by the Secretary of the Board of Registration and Statistics, at the said Bureau, in strict accordance and compliance with the Statute of Canada, called "An Act to amend the Act respecting trade-marks, and to provide for the registration of de- signs," passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter 21, and have pro- cured the certificate of such registration, in accordance with the terms of said Act, and for gxeater certainty as to the contents thereof, crave leave to refer thereto when produced by the plaintiffs, and such registration remains in full force and effect. 9. The defendant was and is well aware of the facts and circumstances hereinbefore stated, but knowing the value of the said medicine, and the value and reputation of the said trade-mark, applied thereto in manner afore- said, but intending to defraud the plaintiffs, and to violate the provisions of the said Statute, and to enrich himself at the plaintiffs' expense and deceive the public, has fraud- ulently manufactured, used and put up, and sold in the City of Hamilton, in Canada West, a certain compound or medicine in colourable imitation of the plaintiffs', and bottled the same, and stamped, affixed, printed and ap- plied to the said bottles and wrappers thereof, the plain- tiffs' said trade-mark " Pain-Killer," in imitation of the said trade-mark of the plaintiffs, called " Pain-Killer," in such a way and manner that the public are, by the said fraudulent use of the plaintiffs' trade-mark, " Pain-KiUer," deceived and led to purchase the articles so made by the defendant instead of those so made by the plaintiffs, and at lower prices than that of the plaintiffs', whereby the plaintiffs are greatly injured in their trade, and the public defrauded, and by reason of the premises the value of the said trade-mark is greatly injured, and the defendant is actively engaged in carrying on the said fraudulent use of the plaintiffs' said trade-mark in the way and manner in this paragraph set forth. 10. The plaintifi's are unable to discover when the said defendant first commenced to use their said trade- mark in the manner set forth in the next preceding paragraph, but on learning the said facts in the autumn of the year 1866, the plaintiffs sent their agent, W. L., to warn the de^ dant to desist from his said conduct, and to cease using the plaintiffs' said trade-mark. The said L. then saw the said defendant at his place of business, in Hamilton aforesaid, and gave him express notice of the 48 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF registration of the said trade-mark, as set forth in the eighth paragraph of this Bill, and of all the other facts hereinbefore setf orth, and requested him to desist from the further use of the plaintiffs' said trade-mark, but, never- theless, the said defendant fraudulently continues at his. said place of business, in Hamilton aforesaid, and else- where in Canada West, to use and apply the plaintiffs' said trade-mark to his own medicines in the way and manner hereinbefore mentioned, and thereby to deceive the public, and does in manner aforesaid deceive the pub- lic, and defraud the plaintiffs in manner aforesaid, and the defendant by so doing obtains benefits and advantages for himself in fraud of the plaintiffs, and the defendant is now daily selling his said medicine by means of his said fraudulent use of the said trade-mark applied thereto, and the defendant threatens and intends to continue so doing, and will do so unless restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court. 11. The defendant has a large quantity of his said medicines put up and labelled, and marked in manner aforesaid, with the said trade-mark of the plaintiffs, and has offered the same for sale, and by means of the said fraudulent use of the plaintiffs' said trade-mark, is daily selling the same in fraud of the said rights of the plaintifts, and to their injury. The plaih tiffs pray as follows : — 1. That the defendant, his servants, agents and work- men may be restrained by the order and injunc- tion of this Honorable Court from the further use of the plaintiffs' said trade-mark, "Paia- Killer," and from printing, impressing or apply- ing the same to any bottle or package of any kind, containing medicine manufactured, sold or put up by him, his servants, workmen or agents, or applying the same to any wrapper, package, parcel or other thing, or in any- other way using or applying the said trade-mark or name of " Pain-Killer," and that the medicine so put up by the defendant, and fraudulently marked with the trade-mark of the plaintiffs, as set forth in the eleventh paragraph of the plaintiffs' Bill may be destroyed. 2. That the defendant may bo ordered to pay the costs of this suit. 3. That an account be taken of the profits in any- wise directly or indirectly made by the de- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY— BILLS. 49 fenclatit by the use of the said trade-mark of the plaintiffs. 4. That such other accounts may be taken and orders made, and relief granted, as the nature and cir- cumstances and the Court shall require. And the plaintiffs will ever prajr, &c. E. M. Plaintiffs Solicitor. 31. Bill to correct error in a deed and mortgage. 51. Bill to correct T ^, error in dea- in Chancery. oription of Between the Merchants' Bank of Canada, '""'^J ™ P^^^ Plaintiffs, ''°'**'"'^'^''^" and E. G., J. B. M., C. G., G. W. B., C. A. S., J. F., C. F., R. J. C, J. A. M., and T. C S., Executrix and Execu- tor of 0. T. M., H. McK., and A K., Defendants City of Hamilton To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of the Merchants' Bank of Ca- nada. Sheweth as follows : 1. In and prior to the year 1853, the defendant, H. McK., was the owner in fee simple of a certain parcel of land situate in the City of Hamilton, in the County of Wentworth, described as follows, that is to say : {copy description of land.) This property the said H. McK., on the 1st June, 1853, sold to the defendants, G. W. B. and C. A. S., for the sum of $1,375 ; no part of the said money was to be paid down, the agreement being that said H. McK. should convey the said lands to the defend- ants, G. W. B. and C. A. S., who were upon such convey- ance to mortgage the said lands in fee to the said H. McK., to secure payment of the said sum of $l,37o, and interest at the rate of six per cent., at the end of ten years from the said 1st June, 1853, with interest payable yearly in the interim. At the time of said sale the said parcel of land was fenced in, a Tavern was built on part thereof, and the whole of said land was used in connection with the said Tavern and then in the occupation of a tenant, and the said Lot surveyed and laid out into Town Lots, and said H. McK. owned no other portion of said Lot number . 30 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 2. In execution of the said agreement the said H. McK., by Indenture dated 1st June, 1853, conveyed the said lands, in fee simple, to said defendants, G. W. B., and C. A. S., who immediately mortgaged the said lands Mi fee to the said H. McK., to secure the payment of the sum of $1,375, and interest at the times and in the manner here- inbefore mentioned, the said mortgage bearing date on 1st June, 1853, and being made by the said G. W. B. and C. A. S., of the first part, E. the wife of said G. W. B., who merely joined therein to bar her inchoate right to dower, of the second part, and the said H. McK. of the third part, and the said tenant of the said H. McK., by the directions of the said H. McK., attorned to and became the tenant of the said lands to the said G. W. B., and C. A. S., in pursuance of the terms of the said sale. The said deed of conveyance and mortgage of said lands were prepared by the defendants, G W. B. and C. A. S., and said lands were and are by mere error and inadvertence erron- eously described in the said deed and mortgage, the des- cription therein given being incorrect only so far as the metes and bounds of the said parcel are concerned, the said parcel being properly described as to the extent there- of, and as to being a part of said original Township Lot now a part of the City of Hamilton as aforesaid, but the point of commencement of the metes and bounds of said parcel and the courses of the boundaries thereof are therein stated in these words, {copy description^ the error in said description being that the position of the post therein referred to is stated to be on the limits be- tween lots 13 and 14, instead of on the limits between lots 12 and 13, as the position of said post in fact is, and said post in fact was at the time of making the said deed and mortgage, and now is the north-west angle of King and Wellington Streets aforesaid. The other courses of the boundaries given in the description contained in the said deed are wholly inapplicable to a parcel of land to be contained within said boundaries as the parcel so de- scribed would not from the relative positions of said orig- inal Township lots 13 and 14, include any portion of said original Township lot 13, beyond the imaginary line forming the extreme west boundary of said lot 13. The said G. W. B., C. A. S., and H. McK., at the time of the execution of said deed and mortgage, believed that the post referred to as on the limit between lots 13 and 14, and being point of commencement was, in fact, the north- west angle of King and Wellington Streets aforesaid, and intended that|such angle should be the point of commence- ment. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY— BILLS. 51 3. The said H. McK., by an Indenture dated 2nd Jan- uary, 1863, and made for valuable consideration between the said H. McK., of the first part, and the Commercial Bank of Canada of the second part, bargained, sold, as- signed, transferred and set over to the said Commercial Bank of Canada, their successors and assigns, the said In- denture of Mortgage referred to in the second paragraph hereof, together with the said sum of $1,375 and interest thereon from 1st December, 1859, (all prior interest hav- ing been paid,) and the said lands described in the iirst paragraph hereof, but by error and inadvertence the said lands were and are described in said Indenture of Assign- ment in the same words as the same are described in the said deed and mortgage, the error therein being of pre- cisely the same nature as that set forth in the second para- graph hereof, the description of the lands given in said assignment being copied from that given in said mortgage, without any knowledge of the error aforesaid. The es- tate, rights and interest of the said Commercial Bank of Canada in the said lands, mortgage, mortgage money, in- terest and assignment, became, and were and are vested in the plaintiffs, under and by virtue of an Indenture of union, dated 27th February, 1868, made between the said Commercial Bank of Canada and the Merchants' Bank, whereby the property and effects of the said Banks be- came amalgamated and vested in the plaintiffs, by their said corporate name, under the provisions of the " Com- mercial Bank Act, 1867." The said Indenture of union has been duly published in the Official Gazettes, as re- quired by the said Statute. 4. The defendants G. W. B. and C. A. S. sold a portion of the said lands to R. R. W. and D. B. G., under whom the defendants E. G., J. B. M., C, G.. G. W. B., as Executors of A. C, R. J. C, J. A. M., and T. C. S., Executrix and Executor of O. T. M. and A. K., respectively, claim Title. The deeds of conveyance of the said portion sold to said R. R. W. and D. B. G., describe the same correctly as be- ing situated on the north-west corner of King and Wel- lington Streets, and on such sales the said G. W. B. and C. A. S. delivered possession of the portions so sold to the said R. R. W. and D. B. G. 5. All the interest which accrued due upon the said mortgage made by the said defendants B. and S., to the defendant McK., up to and inclusive of the instalment of interest which fell due on 1st December, 1859, has been fuUy paid and satisfied, but no further sum has been paid on account of interest, except by receipt of rents and 52 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF profits as hereinafter mentioned, and the whole amount of principal thereby secured is now past due and wholly un- paid and unsatisfied. 6. The said Commercial Bank of Canada took posses- sion of a portion of the said lands as Mortgagees as afore- said, on or about the 19th day of August, A. D. 1863, and of the residue of said lands about the 16th day of Sep- tember, 1864, and continued in possession thereof till the time of the amalgamation of the said Bank with the plaintiff's Bank hereinbefore mentioned, and the plaintiffs are now in possession of said mortgaged lands. 7. The defendants, other than the defendant McK., are entitled to the equity oi redemption of the said mortgaged premises. The defendant G. W. B., as well in his own individual interest as executor of the last will and testa- ment of A. G, deceased, the said R. R. W. and D. B. G., and all the said defendants had actual notice and know- ledge of all the facts and circumstances hereinbefore set forth before and at the time they severally acquired their respective estates and interest in the said mortgaged premises. 8. The plaintiffs have offered to the defendants, to join in and execute a proper deed or proper deeds to correct the said errors and requested the said defendants to join in and execute the same or that said defendants, except said H. McK., should pay off" the said mortgage, but the said defendants neglect and refuse to comply with said request. The plaintiffs pray as follows : 1. That the said deeds of conveyance and mort- gage and assignment thereof, in the first and second paragraphs of the Bill mentioned, may be rectified by correcting the description of the lands therein referred to so as to describe the said lands as the same are described in the first paragraph of said Bill ; and that the plaintiffs may be de- clared mortgagees thereof, and entitled to have a lien thereon for the said $1,375, and interest. 2. That the plaintiff's may be paid the said sum of $1,37-5 and interest, and costs of this suit ; and in default thereof, that the equity of redemp- tion of the said mortgaged premises may be foreclosed. 3. That for the purposes aforesaid, all other ne- cessary directions ;may be given and accounts taken ; and that the plaintiffs may have such fur- ther and other relief as the nature of the case tives of the lessor. PROCEEDINGS I>f CHANCERY — BILLS. 53 requires, and to the Com-t shall seem meet. And the plaintiffs will ever pray, fcc. E. M., Plaintiffs' Solicitor. 53. Bill to enforce covenants in building lease against 52. representatives of lessor. cTvenantfo™ buUdiug lease, -I- ,^1 a^inst the per- in L nancery, soaalrepresenta- Between S.M Plaintiff," "' " and W. H., W. M. S. and C. S., his Wife, G. R. and M. R, his Wife, J. B. and E, B. bis Wife, R. McE, and C. McE., his Wife, J. T. and C. T. his Wife, S. McD., G. B., J. B. and C. W Defendants. City of Hamilton, To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of S. M. of the City of Hamilton, Esquire. Shewetb as follows : 1. P. H. in hi.s lifetime, of the City of Hamilton, Gen- tleman, but now deceased, was the owner in fee simple, of lot number one at the Northern corner of York and Hess Streets, on the North side of York Street in the said City, and while so seized by Indenture, dated the 20th day of April, 1854, and made between the said P. H. and one J, McC, the said P. H. demised and leased the said lot to the said J. McC, his executors, administrators and assigns, for the term of eight years from the date of said Inden ture, at the yearly rent of $15, payable on the 20th day April of each year during said term ; and it was further declared and agreed by the said lease, that the said P. H., his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, at the expira- tion of said term should pay or cause to be paid to the said J. McC, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, the value of any house or houses, and all other buildings and improvements that the said J. McC, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns might, during the said term, erect and put up on said premises after a valuation thereof should have been made. 2. The said J. McC. took possession of the said lot under the said lease, dui-ing the said term, and erected valuable houses and buildings, and made valuable improvements thereon, and afterwards and during said term, by inden- ture dated the 4th day of June, 1857, made between said J. McC. and one C. T., the said J. McC assigned the said 54 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF lease, covenants and agreements and said term, and his right to the said buildings and improvements to the said C. T., who also during said term erected valuable build- ings and made valuable improvements thereon, and the said C. T., by deed dated the 22nd day of December, 1862, assigned to the plaintiff the said lease and the covenants and provisoes therein contained, and his right to all the said buildings and improvements, and to compensation therefor. 3. The said P. H. died in August, 1855, having first duly made and published his last Will and Testament, dated the 17th day of July, 1855, and a Codicil thereto dated the 30th day of July, 1855, both duly executed so as to pass real estate in Upper Canada, whereby the said P. H. did, amongst other things, devise and bequeath the said , lot one to H. S., E. J. and J. K., who were the executors named in his will in trust for the only benefit of R. B. (a grandson of said P. H.), until he should attain the age of thirty years, and then the residue to the said R. B. in fee simple ; but if he should not attain the age of thirty years, then in trust for the heirs of the body of the said R. B. in fee simple, and in default of such issue, then in trust for the right heirs of said P. H. By the said Will and Codi- cil, the said P. H. gave a legacy of $100 to the defendant G. B., a legacy of $ 100 to said J. B., also a legacy of $1,500 to the defendant S. McD., also a legacy of $200 to the defendant C. W., the said P. H. also devised a certain lot of land to his widow, R. H. in trust for the defendant C. W., subject to certain conditions which have happened ; the said P. H. also by his said Will made a certain provi- sion for R. n. his "vvidow, and thereby directed that such provision should be in lieu of the dower of said R. H. as the widow of said P. H., and the said R. H. has accepted such provision in lieu of said dower, and after devising certain portions of his real estate respectively to his daughters, the defendants C. S., M. R., E. B., S. McD., and to his grandson the defendant W. H.,and his granddaugh- ter the defendant C. T., and to the said H. S., E. J., and J. K. in trust for said R. B. as aforesaid, and another por- tion of said real estate to the Wesleyan Methodists ; the ■ said P. fl. bequeathed and devised the whole of his per- sonal estate, which exceeded $«0,000 in value, and the residue of his real estate, and of all his property and effects (after paying his debts and funeral expenses) to the said H. S., E. J., and J. K. in trust to sell and convert into money, and divide the whole thereof between and among the said C. S., M. R., E. B., S. McD, W. H., C. T. and R. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 5& B., for their own use in certain shares and portions therein set forth, it being provided by the said Will, that on the death of the said S. McD. her share should fall into said residue and be equallj^ divided amongst the Testator's surviving grand-children and children, as provided in re- ference to the residue, and for greater certainty as to the contents of the said Will, the plaintiff prays to refer thereto when produced. 4. The said H. S., E. J. and J. K., duly proved the said Will, and probate thereof was granted them by the proper Court in that behalf whereby they became the legal per- sonal repi'esentatives of said P. H. ; and afterwards, a suit for the administration of the estate of said P. H. was duly instituted in this Court in which the said C. S. by her next friend, and the said W. H. were plaintiffs, and the said executors (as such executors) and others were defendants, and in which cause the whole of the estate of the said P. H. was distributed under the order and direction of this Court, and no part thereof now remains in the hands or custody of the said H. S,, E. J. and J. K., or either of them as such executors as aforesaid. The said devise to the Wesleyan Methodists was declared void by the decree in said suit, and the said P. H. died intestate as to the said parcel of land devised to the said Wesleyan Methodists. 5. Neither the plaintiff, the said J. McC, nor C. T. were parties to the said suit or the proceedings therein, or had any notice or knowledge thereof, nor was the claim for the said buildings or improvements, proved or pi'ove- able in the said cause, or in any way adjudicated upon therein. 6. The said R. B. died in the month of August, 18(57, a bachelor under the age of 30 years, and intestate and in- solvent, and no person has been appointed or is likely to be appointed as his personal representative. 7. The said V. H. left him surviving, and his heir and and heiresses-at-law, his grandson the said R. B. and his granddaxighter the said C. T., and his daughter S. McD.,. the wife of the defendant S. McD., and the defendants, C. S., wife of the defendant W. M., S. M. R, wife of the de- fendant G. R., E. B., wife of the defendant J. B., C. McE., wife of the defendant R. McE., and no other child or child- ren, or the issue or descendants of any deceased child or children. The said S. McD survived the said P. H. a short time, and then died intestate without issue, and she left no personal estate or debts, and no person has been ap- pointed, or is likely to be appointed as her personal repre- sentative. The defendants G. B., J. B., and C. W., have 56 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF each received the said legacies to which they were respec- tively entitled, and the said lot of land bequeathed to said B. H. intrust for said C. W., has been conveyed to said C. W., in accordance with the ternis of said devise, and the said C. W. has since sold and disposed thereof, and neither said G. B., J. B., or C. W., are entitled to, or have received any other benefit under said will or codicil. The defend- ants, G. -R, J. B., J. T., and W. M. S., have respectively received, with the consent of their said wives, portions of the real and personal estate of the said P. H. to which their said wives were entitled respectively and the defendants hereto, have under the terms of said will and codicil, re- ceived all that they were entitled to respectively there- under, and have now in their possession a large amount of personal property, being a part of the residuary estate of the said P. H., and a large amount of money, being also a portion of the proceeds of the residuary personal estate of the said P. H., and to an amount more than sufBcient to satisfy the claim of the plaintiff for the said buildings and improvements made under said lease, and the defendants the said heiresses-at-law of P. H. and W. H., have also re- ceived large sums of money, the proceeds of the said real estate of the said P. H., and became entitled as heiresses and devisees as aforesaid of said P. H., to other portions of his said real estate of which they are still respectively the owners, and which in value far exceeds the said claim of the plaintiff, and the said lot so leased as aforesaid, is now vested in the said heiresses-at-law of the said P. H., and has not been in any way disposed of. 8. Neither the said plaintiff, nor the said J. McC, nor the said C. T., have been paid for the said buildings and improvements, or any part thereof, and the plaintiff charges that he is entitled to be paid the value thereof, with interest, under the said covenant of the said P. H., contained in the said lease and that the real and per- sonal estate of the said P. H. was liable to pay and make good the same to the plaintiff, and that the defen- dants are under the facts in the bill set forth now in re- spect of their proportionate shares of the personal estate of said P. H. received by them, liable to pay and make good the same to the plaintiff, and for that purpose, to refund proportionately a sufficient amount of the person- al estate of the said P. H. ; and the plaintiff, before the commencement of this suit, gave all the defendants hereto notice in writing of the nature and effect of said lease and the said facts relating thereto, requested the said defen. dants to have said houses, buildings and improvements PEOCKEDINGS IV CHANCERY BILLS. 57 valued under the term of said lease, and asked the defen- dants to appoint a valuator thereof on their behalf, offer- ing to do the same on his behalf, and also to do and per- form all other acts and things (if any) necessary to have a valuation of said houses, buildings and improvements made under the provisions of the said lease, and requested the defendants, in manner aforesaid, to pay the plaintiff the value of said buildings and improvements, and the plaintiff thereby warned the defendants, that unless the plaintift's claim for said houses, buildings and improve- ments under said lease, was fairly adjusted and paid within a reasonable period (which had long elapsed before the commencement of this suit), the plaintiff would insti- tute this suit for the purposes set forth in the prayer hereinafter contained ; but the said defendants have paid no attention whatever to the said demand, but on the con- trary deny that the plaintiff has any claim whatever under the said lease, and the defendant R. McE. insists that the said lease is a forgery. 9. All the covenants and agreements contained in the said lease, to be performed by the said J. McC, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, have been fully kept and performed so as to entitle the plaintiff to be paid for the said buildings and improvements under the terms of said lease, and the term created by the said lease, has expired since the death of said P. H., and save the said claim of the plaintiff, there is no debt or claim against the said estate of said P. H., now unsettled or outstanding. 10. The defendants, G. B., J. B. and C. W., have re- moved to some portion of the United States of America, unknown to the plaintiff, and said defendants are now permanently residing in the said United States, and they have no means or property within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court. The plaintiff prays as follows : 1. That an account may be ordered to be taken of the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled for the value of the houses, buildings, and all other the improvements erected on the said lot, by the said J. McC. and C. T. under the terms of said lease, and that for that purpose a valua- tion thereof may be made ; the plaintiff hereby offering to do and perform all (if any) acts, matters or things that may be necessary on his part for that purpose ; and that the plaintiff may be paid the amount so ascertained by the defen- 58 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF dants, and for that purpose that the said defen- dants may be decreed to pay and refund to the plaintiff a sufficient sum to make good the same ratably and proportionally to their shares of the personal estate of the said P. H. received by them as aforesaid respectively. 2. That it may be declared that the real and personal estate of the said P. H., was and is liable to pay and make good to the plaintiff, the amount to which he may be found entitled as and for the value of said houses, buildings and improvements aforesaid, under the account to be taken as prayed for above, and that the said amount may be paid out of the said personal assets of the said P. H., but if the same shall be insufficient for that purpose, then that the same may be raised and paid out of the said real as- sets and estate of the said P. H., and that the said real estate so specifically devised and de- scended, may be declared to remain assets of the said P, H., in the hands of said devisees and heirs respectively applicable" to pay the said claim of the plaintiff as aforesaid, and if the said defendants last named shall have disposed of any part of the said real assets so devised or descended as aforesaid, and there shall not remain enough of said real estate not disposed of to satisfy the said claim of the plaintiff, then that the said defendants last named, or such of them as shall have disposed of the said real estate so devised or descended, may be decreed to pay and refund to the plain- tiff ratably and proportionally to their said shares of the said real estate, a sufficient sum to pay and discharge the said claim of the plaintiff. 3. That for the purposes aforesaid, and in order to enable the plaintiff to be paid the amount of his said claim, that all further direc- tions and enquiries may be given, orders made and" accounts taken that may be required. 4. That the plaintiff may be paid his costs of this suit. 5. That the plaintiff may have such further and other relief in the premises as the nature of the case may require. E. M. Plaintiffs Solicitor. tained adminis- tration of an estate. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 59 53. Bill for account against a defendant who has 53. fraudulently obtained letters of administration, ^'^ntl^in^st a defendant T ^-^ who has frau- In Chancery. duientiy ob- Between— J. G. S Plaintiff, *"""" "■""' and C. P., M. C, his wife, A. G. and M. B Defendants. City of Hamilton. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery : The BiLL of Complaint of J. G. S., of Temmelsdorf, m the Grand Duchy of Saxony, Gentleman, Sheweth as follows : 1. J. G. S. the son of the plaintiff, for some years pre- vious to the year 1863, resided in the City of Hamilton in Canada West, where he carried on the business of a saloon keeper, and was in that year the owner in fee sim- ple of a valuable brewery and several city lots in the said City of Hamilton, and possessed of cash, moneys and personal property to a large amount. 2. The defendant, M. C, lived with the said J. G. S. .for several years, prior to and in the year 1863, and was ^ n fact his mistress : the said J. G. S. being desirous to Put an end to the said connection which had subsisted between him and the defendant M. G, with that view Prepared a document for the signature of the said defen- dant M. G, acknowledging that she was his mistress, and that such connection had been dissolved, and in order to make a suitable' provision for the said M. G, and to pro- cure her to execute said document, he then paid her the sum of .51,500 in cash, and thereupon on the 13th day of Jidy, 1863, such document was duly signed by both, the said M. C, and the said J. G. S., and for greater certainty as to the contents thereof, the plaintiff craves leave to refer thereto when produced. 3. Immediately after the execution of the said docu- ment, and payment of the said sum of $1,500 to the said defendant, M. C. — that is to saj^ some time in the month of July, 1863, the said J. G. S., left Hamilton to pay a visit to the plaintiff, who then and still lived at Temmels- dorf aforesaid, intending to stay there for some months, and then return to his home, in Hamilton aforesaid. 4. The said J. G. S., agreed to allow the said defendant, M. C, during his absence, to retain possession of his saloon and furniture, and to carry on the business for her own benefit, and the same are now in the possession of the- said defendants, M. C. and C. P. 60 FURMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 5. On the 13th day of July, 1863, immediately before leaving Hamilton for his said intended journey, the said J. C, S., deposited in the Bank of British North Amer- ica, in Hamilton, the sum of $4,000 at interest, and re- ceived from the Bank six deposit receipts therefor, each of said receipts bearing date the 13th day of July, 1863, two thereof being for the sum of $1,000 each, and the other four for $500 each, bearing four per cent., interest if allowed to remain for three months or beyond that date : these receipts the said J. G. S., kept in his own possession and took with him to Temmelsdorf aforesaid. The said J. G. S., is described in the said receipts as " J. G. S," by which name and also by the name of " J. S.," the said J. G. S. was known in Hamilton. 6. The said J. G. S., while on his said visit at Temmels- dorf aforesaid, died there on the llth day of March, 1864, intestate, and a bachelor, leaving the plaintiff, his father, him surviving, whereby the plaintiff became, and was, and is enitled to, and the absolute owner of the whole of the said real and personal estate of the said J. G. S., and the said J. G. S., was not indebted in any sum what- ever at the time of his decease. 7. The said defendant M. C, on hearing of the death of the said J. G. S., fraudulently represented and pretended that she was his lawful widow, and immediately applied for administration to the estate of the said J. G. S., to the Surrogate Court of the County of Wentworth, in Upper Canada, in which County the said J. G. S. had his fixed place of abode, and had left goods at the time of his death, and thereupon such proceedings were had within the juris- diction of the said Surrogate Court, that the Defendant, M. G, was, on the 25th day of August, 1864, appointed sole administratrix of the personal estate and effects of the said J. G. S., and such grant has not been revoked. 8. In making application to the said Surrogate Court for administration to the estate of the said J. G. S., the defendant, M. G, falsely and fraudulently represented, and swore that his personal estate was under the value of $150, and procured two persons of little or no mea^s to become surety to the extent of $300 for the due admistra- tion of the said estate, and the said defendants, C. P. and M. C. P. are in indigent circumstances. 9. It is the well known and established custom of the said Bank in respect of Deposit Receipts, like that granted to the said J. G. S., to pay the moneys therein mentioned, only upon the production of said receipts, and on the per- son applying for such payment being identified if not PROCEEDING.S IN CHANCliRY — BILLS. 61. known to the said Bank, or their Managers for the time being, and such rule is adopted for the protection of the persons to whom such receipts are granted, and the said deposits were made by said J. G. S., with the knowledge of and in reliance upon such custom, and he, in order to obtain and retain the benefit thereof, carefully retained such receipts in his own possession, and had the same with him in Temmelsdorf, aforesaid when he died, and the same are now in possession of the plaintiff. 10. Upon the defendant, M. C, demanding from the said Bank the said moneys, deposited therein by the said J. G. S., the said Bank having regard to their said custom and duty refused to pay the same to her until the said receipts should be produced, whereupon the said defen- dant, M. C, applied foj' advice to the defendants A. G. and M. B , who are both men of some small means, and said A. G., is brother of the defendant M. G, and the de- fendant M. B., is a connection of the said defendant, M. C., and the said defendant, M C, stated to them all the facts and circumstances hereinbefore set forth, and asked them to aid and assist her in so fraudulently obtaining the said moneys, and offered them a share thereof for the trouble and risk they would incur, the said defendants A. G., and M. B., fraudulently agreed to assist the said de- fendant, M. C, in her said fraudulent design, and accepted the terms oiiered by said defendant, M. C., to share in the way and manner hereinafter mentioned, the said moneys so obtained from the said Bank : and in order to induce the said Bank to pay said moneys to the defendant M. C.,the said defendants, A. G.,M. B. and M. C., falsely and fraudulently represented to the said Bank that the said receipts were lost, and then offered to enter into a Vjond to the said Bank, to secure the said Bank against loss or damages by reason of their paying said moneys to the said M. C., the said Bank agreed to accept such in- demnity and pay over said money, and a Bond to secure the said Bank from loss or damage by reason of the pay- ment of said moneys to said M. C., was prepared and exe- cuted by the said defendants M. C., A. G. and M. B., and thereupon in the month of September, 1864, the said moneys were paid over to the said defendant, M. C., by the said Bank, and the said M. C, in pursuance of her said agreement immediately handed over the same to the defendants, M. B. and A. G., upon the trusts and for the- purposes hereinafter mentioned. 11. Before anil at the time of the execution of the said Bond, and of the payment of the said moneys by the said fi2 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF Bank to the said defendant, M. C, and of the receipt of said moneys by said defendants, A. G. and M. B. from said M. C, the said defendants, A. G. and M. B. had actual knowledge and notice that M. G. was not the wife or widow of the said J. G. S., and that the said moneys were the sole property of the plaintiff as such next-of-kin of the said J. G. S., as hereinbefore mentioned, and of all the other facts and circumstances hereinbefore set forth. 12. In pursuance of the said fraudulent arrangement, the said defendants, A. G. and M. B., received the said moneys from the defendant, M. C, upon the trust and un- derstanding that they should retain the same in their own hands, deal with, use and appropriate the same in some way or manner for the benefit and advantage of the said defendants, M. G, A. G- and M. B„ and fraudulently to hinder and prevent the plaintiff from recovering or re- ceiving the same. 13. The said moneys so received from the said Bank, are invested in mortgages, promissory notes, and other instru- ments and securities for moneys and lands, all whereof are in the possession and under the control of the defendants, but of the nature and particulars whereof the plaintiff is wholly ignorant, and the said defendants threaten and in- tend forthwith to dispose thereof, and convert the money received therefrom to their own use, and for that purpose have offered for sale several of the said securities, and have pressed for payment of others thereof, and the said securi- ties are taken, and stand in the names of the said defend- ants or some of them, and are not stated ,to be held or taken on account of said estate of the said J. G. S., de- ceased, but appear on the face thereof to be the absolute property of the defendants holding the same, or to whom the same are made payable or transferred, and this plan has been adopted by said defendants, with the fraudulent purpose, intent, and design, of more easily disposing there- of to their own use, and frustrating the plaintiff in any endeavours to recover the same, and said defendants will dispose thereof for their own use, unless prevented by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court, and in order that the said securities and personal estate of said J. G. S., decesused, may be properly secured, collected and got in, it will be necessary that some proper party be ap- pointed as a receiver thereof 14. The said M. G, some time in the year 1865, inter- married with the detendant, C. P., and the said C. P. has acquiesced in, approved of and ratified the said dealings of the said defendants, M. C, A. G. and M. B., with the said PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 63 estate of the said J. G. S., and is aiding and assisting them in their carrying out the design and purposes set forth in the preceding paragraphs of this Bill. The plaintiff therefore prays as follows : 1. That the personal estate of the said J. G. S- maj' be wound up, and administered under the order and direction of this Honorable Court. 2. That the said defendants may be directed to bring in and deposit under oath in this Honora- ble Court, all and singular, the said mortgages, promissory notes and securities, in which the said monej'S belonging to the said estate of the said J. G. S., may now be invested, or which have been purchased with the said moneys, and if the said moneys be invested in lands that such lands may be conveyed and dealt with in such way and manner as this Honorable Court shall direct in order to secure the |same, or if any of said moneys be in the hands of said defendants, that the same may be forthwith paid into Court. 3. That the said defendants, and each of them, may be restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court from further dealing or intermeddhnginany way with the personal estate of the said J. G. S. 4. That the defendants may be directed to paj- the plaintiff's costs of this suit, and make good to the said estate whatever moneys and effects they have received on account thereof. 5. That a receiver of the said personal estate may be appointed. 6. And that for the purposes aforesaid, all pro- per accounts may betaken, and directions given. 7. And for such further and other relief as the nature of the case shall require, and shall .•ieem just. 8. And the plaintiff will ever pray, fee. E. M., Plaintiffs Solicitor. 64 rOUMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 54. Bill by judg- ment creditor to set aside conveyance by his debtor as fraudulent, under 13 and 27 Eliz., and of Con. Stat. of Canada, c. 54. Bill to set aside fraudulent conveyance by debtor. In Chancery. Between- -M. B Plaintifl, and J. McC. and L. MoC Defendants. Town of St. Catharines. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of M. B., of the Township of Caistor, in the County of Lincoln, Spinster, Sheweth : 1. That on the 2nd day of September, in the year 186H, your complainant commenced an action in Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas for Ontario, against the above-named defendant, J. MeC, and on the 5th day of November, in the year 1868, a verdict was rendered in the said action in favour of the plaintiff for $325.00, and on the 2nd day of January, in the year 1869, your com- plainant recovered a judgment in the said action at law, for the sum of $398.10. 1. That on the 2nd day of Januaiy aforesaid, your complainant caused a writ of fieri facias against the goods and chattels of the said defendant, J. McC., and also a writ of fieri facias against the lands and tenements of the said defendant, J. McC, to be issued upon the said judgment, which writs of fieri facias were placed in the hands of the Sherifi of the County of Lincoln, the County wherein the said last named defendant resided, and the said writ of fieri facias against the goods of the said last- named defendant, has been returned by the said Sheriff nulla bona, meaning that the said defendant, J. McC, had not any goods or chattels in his bailiwick whereof he could cause to be made the said judgment, or any part thereof, and the said writ against the lands of the said last-named defendant now remains in the hands of the said Sheriff to be executed. 3. That the said judgment remains wholly due and un- satisfied, and the defendants refuse to pay the same. 4. That at the time your complainant commenced her said action at law, the said defendants were joint tenants in and entitled to the equity of redemption in the foEow- ing lands : {Describe the lands.). 5. That shortly before your complainant recovered a* verdict in the said action at law, and on the 3rd day of November, in the year 1868, the defendant, J. McC, conveyed, or purported to convey, to the defen- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 65 daiit, L. McC, who is his brother, all the undivided in- terest of him, the said defendant, J. McC, of, in, or to the said land and premises, and the consideration expressed in the said deed was the sum of ijooO.OO, which deed has been registered in the Registr3' Office of the County of Lincoln, and the same now appears in the books of regis- try ill the said Registry Office. 6. Your complainant charges that although the convey- ance in the lifth paragraph hereof purports to have been made for the valuable consideration of S550.00, no con- sideration in fact passed from the said defendant, L. McC, to the defendant, J. McC, but the conveyance was simply voluntary and void as against your complainant. 7. Your complainant further charges that the said deed was and is fraudulent and void, as against your com- plainant, the same having been made as aforesaid, for the purpose of defeating and delaying your complainant, or of preferring the said defendant, L. McC, and being in con- travention of the provisions of Statutes passed in the 13th and 27th years of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and of the Consolidated Statutes of Upper Canada, chapter 26. 8. That since the making of the said deed, mentioned in the fifth paragragh hereof, and up to the present time, the said defendant, J. McC, has remained in the posses- sion, use, and occupation of the said premises with his brother, the said defendant, L. McC, the same as he did prior to the said conveyance to his said brother, the de- fendant, L. McC 9. The said Sheriff has been, and still is, prevented and hindered by the said deed or conveyance from executing the said writ against the lands of the said defendant, J. McC, and unless the said deed is set aside your com- plainant wUl be unable to obtain the fruits of her said execution against the lands of the said last-named de- fendant. 10. That for the reasons aforesaid, your complainant submits that the said deed is fraudulent and void as against your complainant, and ought to be set aside and cancelled. Your complainant therefore prays : 1. That the said deed made to the said defendant, L. McC, by the defendant, J. McC, may be declared to be fraudulent and void as against your com- plainant, and may be set aside and ordered to be delivered up to be cancelled, and that the regis- 5 66 FORMS AifD PRECEDENTS OF tration and registered duplicate thereof may in like manner be ordered to be cancelled. 2. That the defendants may be ordered to pay your complainant her costs of this suit. 3. That for the purposes aforesaid all proper direc- tions may be given and accounts taken. 4. That your complainant may have such further and other relief as to your Lordships may seem meet. And your complainant will ever pray {t). 55. Bill to declare a deed exe- cuted by plaintiff, while an infant, void, and for a re-conyeyance. 55. Bill to avoid conveyance made by plaintiff while au infa/nt. In Chancery. Between .Plaintiff, M.F.T.B and J.B., Defendant. City of Kingston. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of M. F. T. B., of the City of Kingston, spinster, Sheweth as follows : — 1. One N.B., in his lifetime of the Town of OakvOle, mariner, the plaintiff's father, died on or about the day of July, A,D. 1852, the owner in fee simple to his own use and in possession of that certain parcel of land situate in the {describe land". 2. By his last will and testament duly executed as by law is required for the effectual devise of real estate in Ontario bearing date on or about the 21st day of June, A.D., 1852, the said N.B. devised the said parcel of land to his wife M. A. B. imtU the plaintiff should attain the age of twenty-one years, or until his said wife should marry again, in trust for the support and maintenance of his said wife, and of the plaintiff until his said wife should marry again or the plaintiff should attain the age of eigh- teen years. 3. In and by his said will the said N.B. further direct- ed that, in the event of his said wife marrying again, the said parcel of land should be rented and managed by the executors in the said will named for the plaintiff's benefit and support in such manner as such executors should think proper, and he thereby declared that the said parcel (t) For other forms, see Nos. 46, 67. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 67 should become the sole property of the plaintiff in fee simple when the plaintiflF should attain the age of eighteen years. 4. The said N.B., shortly afterwards, made a codicil to his said will, but he did not thereby or otherwise alter or revoke the disposition hereinbefore stated of the said land before his death. 5. The said M. A. B. married one P. H, in or about the year 1853, and the plaintiff, who was then an infant of the age of four years, lived with her mother and the said P.H. thenceforth until the making of the conveyance hereinafter mentioned, and afterwards. 6. The plaintiff attained the age of eighteen years on or about the 3rd day of December, 1867, and in the month of January following the said P.H. informed the plaintiff that he had sold the said parcel of land to the defendant and required the plaintiff and her mother to go to Hamil- ton to meet the defendant to carry out the sale. 7. Thereupon and on or about the 6th day of January, 1868, the said P. H. brought the plaintiff and her mother to Hamilton where the said P. H. and the defendant in- duced the plaintiff and her mother to execute a convey- ance of the said parcel of land to the defendant, and such conveyance was accordingly in fact executed to the de- fendant by the plaintiff and her said mother, and the same was accordingly afterwards registered in the Registry Office for the County of Wentworth by the defendant. 8. The plaintiff executed the said deed under the coer- cion and at the request of the said P. H. and the defend- ant, and she was then an infant under the age of twenty- one years, and had no advice or assistance, and was igno- ant of her rights in the premises. 9. The plaintiff received no benefit from the said sale or from the purchase money, but the said P. H. received the benefit thereof as was intended when the bar- gain was made between the said P. H. and the defendant. 10. The defendant immediately after the execution of the said conveyance entered into possession of the said premises and has continued in possession thereof and in the receipt of the rents and profits thereof ever since. 11. The plaintiffs mother died in April, 1870, and the plaintiff attained her age of twenty one years in the month of December in the same year, and as soon after as she was properly advised of her rights she repudiated the said conveyance and notified the defendant that she did so, FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF and she refused to be bound thereby, or to ratify or con- firm the same. 12. The registration of the said deed forms a cloud on the plaintiffs title to the said parcel of land, and the plaintiff applied to the defendant before suit to execute, and tendered to him for that purpose a proper instrument to remove such cloud ; but the defendant refused and still refuses to execute any such instrument or to deliver up possession to the plaintiff. 13. The defendant was weU aware, when he took the said conveyance and entered into possession as aforesaid, of the plaintift's infancy, and the plaintiff submits that the defendant is accountable to her as a bailiff for the rents and profits of the said parcel of land since he took such possession. 14. The defendant threatens and intends to, and will, unless restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court, alienate or encumber the said land and commit^ waste thereon. The plaintiff therefore prays as foUows : — 1. That the defendant may be ordered to execute such instrument as may be necessary to remove the cloud on the plaintiff's title caused by the registration of the said conveyance, and to de- liver the said conveyance to the plaintiff to be cancelled. 2. That the defendant may also be ordered to account for and to pay to the plaintiff the rents and pro- fits of the same parcel of land since he entered into possession or occupation thereof, and the costs of this suit. 3. That in the meantime the defendant may be re- strained from alienating or encumbering the same, and from committing any waste or de- struction thereon. 4. That for the purposes aforesaid all proper direc- tions may be given and accounts taken, and that the plaintiff may ha.ve such further and other relief as to this Honorable Court shall seem meet. And the plaintiff will ever pray, &c. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 69 56. Bill to set aside conveyanee as fraudulent under 56. insolvent Act. aside convayanoe as fraudulent Y r^^ and an evasion In L hancery. of tlie insolvency Between F. M. W. and A. McK Plaintiffs, and J. S., J. W. M and J. L Defendants. City of Hamilton. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery : The BiU of Complaint of F. M. W. and A. McK., both of the City of Hamilton, in the County of Wentworth, accountants. Sheweth as follows : 1. R. J. H. and one M. D. for many years previous to and in the year 1864, carried on business in Hamilton in Canada West, as bankers and brokers under the style and firm of " H. D. & Co." 2. Prior to and in the month of September, 1864, the said firm had become and it then was insolvent, and has since continued insolvent, and the joint estate was in- adequate to the payment of the joint debts, and the separate property and estate of the said R. J. H. was and is inadequate to the payment of his separate debts, and though the separate estate of the said M. D. was more than adequate to the payment of his separate debts, yet the surplus of the separate estate of said M. D. was inade- quate to the payment of the deficiency between the amount of the assets of the joint estate and the amount of the joint debts. 3. In the month of August, 1864, one 0. recovered a Judgment for a large sum against the said R. J. H. and placed an execution in the hands of the Sheriff" of the County of Wentworth thereon against the goods and chat- tels of the said R. J. H., but the same was still in the hands of the said Sheriff, wholly unsatisfied, on the 13th day of September, 1864, and on and prior to the 13th day of Sep- tember, 1864, there were a great number of actions pend- ing against the said R. J. H., representing in the aggregate over ten thousand dollars, to which actions the said R. J. H. had no just defence and the said R J. H. was well aware that Judgments could be obtained against him in such actions upon or within a few days, after the 13th day of September, 1864, and the said firm of H. D. & Co. had stopped payment and suspended business and their insolvency was public, and the defendant S. was prior to 70 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF and on the said 13th day of September, 1864, well aware and had actual notice and knowledge of the said insol- vency of the said R. J. IT. and of the said firm of H. D. & Co., and of the recovery of said O.'s said Judgment, of the pending of said actions against the said R. J. H. and that said R. J. H. had no defence thereto and of the period when Judgment could be entered, therein against him and execution issued upon such Judgments, and both the said R. J. H. and the defendant S. then were well aware that proceedings had been taken and were then pending, under the Insolvent Act of 1864, to place the estate of R. J. H. and M. D. as partners as aforesaid and as individuals in compulsory liquidation under the said Act. 5. Under these circumstances, the said R. J. H. fraudu- lently desiring to evade the provisions of the said Insol- vent Act, and to secure the administration of his estate by a trustee of his own choosing and to fraudulently hin- der, impede, obstruct and delay his creditors in their reme- dies against him under the said Insolvent Act formed the fraudulent design to accomplish his said objects by means of an indenture by way of assignment of his estate and efiects to be made otherwise than in the manner prescribed by said Act to the defendant S., and to be expressed to be in trust for the benefit of the creditors of the said R. J. H 6. In pursuance of the said fraudulent design and with the intent, object and purpose aforesaid, on the 13th day of September, 1864, an Indenture of Assignment for the pretended benefit of creditors was made and executed by the said R. J. H. to the said J. S., and by him accepted and executed otherwise than in the manner prescribed by said Act, dated the 13th day of September, 1864, com- prising the whole of the estate and effects of the said R. J. H., which said indenture is in the words and figures following : "Know all men by these presents that I, R. J. H., of the City of Hamilton, Esquire, do grant and as- sign into J. S., of the same place, accountant, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns that certain Judg- ment recovered by me against J. C. T. on the 25th day of August last, for the sum of $13,387- 74, in Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench for Upper Canada, and all mo- neys hereby due thereunder made payable and all benefits and advantages which I now have and may hereafter have, and all other debts owing or accruing due to me. " To have and to hold the same, unto the said J. S., his executors, administrators and assigns. In trust for the general benefit of the creditors of me, the said R. J. H. PROCEF,DINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 71 pari passu and without any preference and priority ac- cording to the provisions of Insolvent Act of 1864. " Witness my hand and seal the 13 September, 1864. " Signed, sealed and delivered I " T S in presence of R A. L. j «rri' tV .> 7. The Judgment of H. versus T. in said Indenture of Assignment referred to was and is in point of fact the only asset of any nature or kind whatever of the estate of said R. J. H. that was or is of any value whatever. 8. At the time of the making of the said Indenture of Assignment, and of the acceptance thereof, by the defen- dant S., the said defendant, had actual notice and know- ledge of all the facts and circumstances set forth in all the preceding paragraphs of this Bill. 9. Your orators submit that the said Indenture of As- signment was and is void as against your orators under the provisions of the Insolvent Act of 1864. 10. The said T. H. who executed the said pretended la- denture of Assignment was at the time of the execution thereof a creditor of the said R. J. H. and executed the same as such but he has since ceased to be a creditor of the said R. J. H. 11. The names of all the creditors of the said R. J. H., individually and as a partner of the firm of H. D. & Co., are unknown to your orators, but the number of such cre- ditors of each class which are known to your orators are very large, exceeding fifty in number of each class ; the defendant, J. W. M., is a creditor of the said R J. H., in- dividually, and the defendant, J. L., is a creditor of the said R. J. H., as a partner of the firm of H. D. & Co. ; your orators submit that the said defendants, J. W. M. and J. L., sufficientlj^ represent the creditors of the said R. J. H., who would be entitled to share in the moneys to be realized under the said pretended assign- ment. 12. The said J. S. has taken and retains possession of the said Deed of Assignment and has under colour thereof endeavoured to collect and get into his possession, and is now endeavouring to collect and get into his possession the moneys arising from the said Judgment in the said assignment referred to, and has, with the object aforesaid, in like manner demanded and is demanding the same from the Sheriff of the County of Wentworth, and has also in like manner attempted to collect or compromise other debts due to the said R. J. H. at the time of making the said as- 72 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF signment, and in like manner has, with full notice and knowledge of the appointment of your orators as-assignees of the said R. J H., as set forth in the thirteenth paragraph of this Bill obstructed and impeded, and is impeding and obstructing, your orators, in the execution of their duties as official assignees of the estate and effects of the said R. J. H., and threatens and intends to and will receive and collect the said debts and moneys and intermeddle with the estate and effects of the R. J. H. unless re- strained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court. 13. On the 1st day of October, A. D. 1864, a writ of attachment was issued out of the County Court of the County of Wentworth, under the Insolvent Act of 1864, at the suit of G. L., against the said R. J. H. and M. D., as partners and as individuals, and thereupon such proceed- ings were duly had and taken against the said R. J. H. and M. D under the provisions of said Act, that, at a meeting of the creditors of said R. J. H. and M. D., holden before the Judge of said Court at Hamilton, on the 10th day of November, A. D. 1864, the plaintiffs were duly ap- pointed the official assignees of the estate and effects of the said R. J. H. and M. D., as such partners and as indi- viduals, and the plaintiffs then became and were and now are such official assignees of the whole of the separate estate of the said R. J. H. and of the whole of the salid partner- ship property and ot the individual property of the said R. J. H., and the same became vested in the plaintiffs, as such assignees, as aforesaid. Your orators pray as follows : 1. That the said Indentuie of Assignment to the defendant S. may be declared fraudulent and void as against your orators, and that the same may be delivered up to be cancelled. 2. And that the defendant S. may be ordered to deliver up to your orators all deeds, books of account, bills, notes, vouchers, moneys, docu- ments, goods, effects and property, whatever be- longing to the estate of the said R. J. H. which have come to the possession or control of the said defendant S. and retransfer and reassign the same to, your orators. i 3. And that the defendant S. may be restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court from interfering or intermeddling with the said Judgment of H. versus T. in the Bill men- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 73 tioned and from collecting the moneys thereby secured, and from collecting any debts or moneys due to the said K. J. H., or in any way dealing with or disposing thereof and from impeding your oratoi-s in the execution of their said duties as such assignees of the estate and effects of the said R. J. H. 4. And that the said S. may be ordered to ac- count to yom- orators for aU moneys, securities, goods, property or effects he may have received under the said assignment, and pay and deliver the same to your orators. 3. And that the defendants, or one of them, may be directed to pay the costs of this suit. 6. That for the pui-poses aforesaid all proper accounts may be taken and directions given that may be necessary. 7. And for such further and other relief as the nature of the case shall require and shall seem just. 8. And your orators will ever pray, &c. (u) 37. Bill hy Assignee in Insolrcncy to set ashlc Fraudu- 57. lent Conveyance hy Insolvent. AMime?To"l*'t aside deed, as T„ /-iv. fraudulent, anil In Lhancery. void against or«- Between— J. J. M Plaintiff (v) ■^"""•'■'"^ and D. V. S., R. M., H. C. and E. S., an infant under the age of twenty-one years Defendants. City of Hamilton. To the Honoui-able the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of J. J. M., of the Qty of Ham- ilton, Accountant, the assignee of the estate and effects of T. 0. S., under the provisions of the Insolvent Act of 1869. Sheweth : 1. The said T. O. S. earned on business as a mei- chant, at the Village of Princeton, in the County of Ox- ford, preAaous to and on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1871, and he was then indebted in the sum of $4,100 and upwards to various unsecured business and other credi- tors, and such debts still subsist, and are unpaid, and he (u) See next form. (d) In a bill of this kind bj an official assignee, the insolvent is not a proper party defendant. See Bnvstead v. Whitmwe, 22 Grt. 22i Kerr v. Read, ib. 629. 74 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF was, and is now, also indebted in $2,500, secured by mortgage on the farm then belonging to him hereinafter mentioned. 2. In the said month of March, and for some time pre- viously thereto, and at the time of the execution by him of the Indenture of the 2nd March, A. D. 1871, herein- after mentioned, the stock in trade, and all the property and assets of the said T. 0. S., of every kind, except the farm hereinafter particularly mentioned, did not exceed in value the sum of $1,400, the said farm was of the value of about $2,000 over and above aU incumbrances by mortgage, and the said assets then were, and have ever since remained, insufficient for the payment of the debts of the said T. 0. S., and he then was insolvent within the meaning of the Statutes relating to Insolvency in force in this Province, and was then aware of said facts. 3. While the affairs of the said T. O. S. were in the position hereinbefore stated, an Indenture, dated the 2nd March, A. D. 1871, expressed to be made between the said T. 0. S. of the first part, and the defendantsj R M. and H. C, therein described as both of the City of Hamilton, in the County of Wentworth, Solicitors, of the second part, was prepared, and the same was executed by the said T.O.S.,R.M. and H.C. whereby, after reciting that the said T. O. S. was desirous of making a provision for the support and maintenance of his said wife during her life, and the support, maintenance, and education of their children, and that the said Indenture was made for the said consideration, and the fiirther sum of $1, the said T. 0. S. did convey unto the said defendants, R? M. and H. C, hereafter called the Trustees in fee as joint tenants his said farm, which is described as fol- lows, that is to say {Describe the lands), upon Trust, to collect and get in the rents thereof, and pay the same to the said wife of the said T. 0. S., for the support of herself and the said children during the life of the said wife, and after his death to the duly appointed guardian of the children till they shoidd respectively attain the age of twenty-one years. But if the said wife should live till the said children should attain the age of twenty- one years, the said defendants, the Trustees, are em- powered to pay such portion of the said rents to the said defendant, D. V. S., as they shall see fit, and after the death of the said D. V. S., but not before the youngest child shall become of age, then, in trust, to sell the said lands and divide the proceeds equally, or to divide the PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 75 said lands equally, between the said childi-en, with power to the said defendants, the Trustees, to make advances for the education of any of the said children out of his or her presumptive shai-e, it being declared by the said deed that the share of any chUd or childi-en dying and leaving issue, shall belong to such issue, but if any child or chil- dren should die without issue, his or her share shall be equally divided amongst the survivors ; and it is by said Indenture further prbvided that the defendants, the Trus- tees, may at any time sell the said lands, invest the pro- ceeds thereof, and apply the income and proceeds in the manner hereinbefore set forth, and that if the children of the said T. O. S., by his said wife, should die without law- ful issue, the said lands or proceeds thereof should, after the death of the said D. V. S., revert and belong to the said T. O. S. The said Indenture contains no covenant or agreements of any kind from the said Trustees to the said T. O. S., or from him to them. The said deed was «xecuted upon the day of the date thereof, or within four days thereafter ; the lands thereby conveyed formed by far the largest part of the property of the said T. O. S., and the residue of his property was insufficient for the payment of his debts. 4. The defendants, the Trustees, before and at the time of the execution of the said Indenture, knew that the de- fendant was indebted in a sum exceeding SI, 000 in res- pect of a private debt over and above all his business debts, and that he had no property of any kind except the ^aid farm and his stock in trade, and the assets of his said business; and the said deed was executed hy the said T. O. S. with intent to hinder, defeat and delay hiss creditors in their remedies against him. 5. At the time of the execution of the said deed, several of the debts then and still owing by the said T. O. S. were past due, and he was without the means for pay- ment thereof; and within a few days thereafter he called a meeting of his creditors, and, failing to pay or satisfy them, was served with a demand to execute an assign- ment in Insolvency under the Insolvent Act of 1869, whereupon he did on the 1st day of May, A.D. 1871, voluntarily assign his estate and effects under the said Act to J. McW., an official assignee duly appointed under said Act, and resident in the said County of Oxford, as the interim assignee of the said estate ; and subsequently at the meeting of the creditors, duly called for the ap- pointment of the assignee, and held on the ^.'h-d day of 76 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF May, A.D. 1871, the plaintiff was duly appointed the assignee to the estate of the insolvent by the creditors, who had duly proved their claims as provided by the said Act, and thereupon the said J. McW. duly executed the deed of transfer of said estate to the plaintiff, dated the 23rd day of May, A.D. 1871, and delivered over the said estate to the plaintiff, who duly accepted the same. 6. The said T. 0. S. and the defendant D. V. S. had been married over eleven years prior to the execution of said Indenture, and had married without any settlement or agreement for settlement whatever, and they had issue of their said marriage three children, the eldest of whom is under ten years of age — ^the defendant E. S. is the eldest of such children — and the plaintiff submits pro- perly represents the rest of said issue. The said E. S. resides with the said D. V. S., at the Township of Salt- fleet, in the County of Wentworth. 7. The said Indenture was made and executed as afore- said, without any money or valuable consideration what- ever, and hinders, defeats and delays the creditors of the said T. 0. S., in their remedies against him and his estate ; and the plaintiff submits that said Indenture is, under the circumstances aforesaid, voluntary and fraudulent and void as against the plaintiff as assignee as aforesaid, and the creditors of said T. 0. S., under the provisions of the several Statutes in that behalf, especially the Statute of 13 Elizabeth, chapter 5, and the Statutes of Canada, known as the Insolvent Act of 1869, and the Indigent Debtors' Act. 8. The defendants, the Trustees, are in receipt of the rents and profits of the said farm, and have paid some thereof to the said D. V. S., and have some thereof in their hands. The plaintiff prays as follows : 1. That the said Indenture of the 2nd day of March, A.D. 1871, may be declared voluntary, fraudu- lent and void as against the plaintiff as such assignee as aforesaid, and the creditors of said T. 0. S., and may be set aside accordingly. 2. That the plaintiff as such assignee as aforesaid. may be declared to be entitled to the said lands, and that the Trustees may be directed to pay over to them all rents received or to be received from the said premises. PKOCEEDINGS IN' CHANCERY — BILLS. 77 That the said defeudants, or some of them, may be ordered to paj- the costs of this suit. That all such other accounts may be taken and directions given as may be necessary. That the plaintiff may have such further and other relief in this matter as the nature of the case may require (v). 58. Bill by execution creditor to prevent waste. Biub^xecutioQ creditor to T , ,1 prevei^t waste. In L hancerv. Between— The C. B. of C Plaintiffs, and R. J. H., S. B. F., and M. O'R., Defendants. City of Hamilton. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of the C. B. of C, the above named Plnintiffs, a corporation duly incorporated under the Statutes of this Province, Sheweth as follows : 1. G. C. C. was in his lifetime the owner in fee simple of a certain farm, known as the " C. farm," composed of (describe the land). 2. The said G. C. C. died on or about the 24th day of June, 18G4, having first made his will, the same being contained in two instruments, the one dated the 19th day of July, A. D. 1861, the other dated the 9th of September, A. D. 1863, both duly executed and attested, so as to pass real estate in Upper Canada, and by the first mentioned of said instruments he appointed the defendant, M. O'R, sole executor of his said will, and by the second thereof, without revoking the appointment of said M. O'R. as executor, as aforesaid, he devised the said lands unto the defendants S. B. F. and R. J. H, as joint tenants, and to the heirs and assigns of the survivor, in trust for the be- nefit, use and advantage of A. H. H., during her natural life, but in such manner that no husband of hers shall have any control over the same, and after her death then to her children, their heirs and assigns for ever, and in the event of her death without children then living, then to the use, benefit and advantage of J. M. and J. C. H., and upon the condition that W.H., a son of the said R. J. H., should not in any event take any advantage or benefit from any of the foregoing trusts. (d) For another form, see No. 66. 78 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 3. The defendant, M. O'R, has duly proved the said two instruments as the wUl of the said G. C. C — probate thereof has been granted to him as sole executor of said will, in due form of law, by the Surrogate Court of the County of Wentworth, the proper court in that behalf. 4. The defendants, S. B. F. and R. J. H., have accepted the said trusts, under the said will, and have caused the same to be registered in the proper Registry for lands in the County of Halton. 5. The said G. C. C. was, in his lifetime, indebted to the plaintiffs in a sum of $42,000, as indorser of two cer- tain Bills of Exchange, held by the said Bank ; one there- of for $40,000 made by the firm of H., D. & Company, of which the defendant, R. J. H., was a partner, and on which the defendant, S. B. F., was also an endorser ; the other for $2,000, made by the defendant, R. J. H. On this last mentioned note, the defendant, R. J. H., paid $500, but failed to pay any portion of the residue of either of said notes, and thereupon on the death of said C, the plaintiffs, in due course of law, sued the de- fendant, M. O'R, as executor of the last will and testa- ment of the said G. C. C, in the Court of Queen's Bench, to recover the said moneys, and thereupon the plaintiffs duly recovered judgment in the said action, on the 7th day of June, 1865, for $42,812.92 damages, and $28.55 costs, issued an execution thereon in due form of law against the defendant, M. O'R, as such executor, as afore- said, addressed to the Sheriff of the County of Went- worth, commanding him to levy the said moneys of the goods and chattels in his county, of the said G. C. C, in the hands of said M. O'R., as such executor, as aforesaid, to be administered, and to return the same in due form of law. 6. The said Sheriff afterwards returned the said writ with his return thereon endorsed to the effect that the said defendant, M. O'R., as such Executor as aforesaid, had no goods of the said G. C. C, in his hands, whereof he could cause the Said moneys, or any part thereof, to be levied, and thereupon a writ of execution was duly issued by the plaintiffs, upon said judgment against the defend- ant, M. O'R., as such executor as aforesaid, directed to the Sheriff of the County of Halton, commanding him to levy the said moneys and interest of the lands and tene- ments in hi? county of the said G. C. C, in due course of law, which said writ duly indorsed, was delivered to the Sheriff of the County of Halton, for execution, on the 9th day of June, 1865, and your orators submit that they PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 79 have thereby acquired a lien upon the said lands, and the timber and trees thereon, and privileges and appur- tenances thereto belonging and are entitled to have the same applied in and towards payment thereof. 7. The said lands and another parcel of about 1 50 acres devised by said C. to one H. E. F., form the whole of the lands of the said late G. C. C, in the Countj^ of Halton, and the whole thereof together are not worth the sum of $15,000, and your complainants have no other security for the said judgment debt except the said lands, and a parcel of about 60 acres of land in the Township of East Flamborough, in the County of Wentworth, worth not more than $1,500, and which are levied on by a concurrent writ against lands issued upon said judgment, and directed to and placed in the hands of the Sheriff of the County of Wentworth for execution, and the whole of the said lands in the Counties of Wentworth and Halton form an insufficient security for the payment of the said judg- ment debt. The said firm of H., D. & Co., and said R. J. H . have both become insolvent ; their estates are wound up in insolvency, but it is as yet impossible to tell accurately the amount of the dividend, but the same will be exceedingly small, certainly under 25 cents on the dollar: the plaintiffs recovered from the defendant, S. B. F., who was an endorser on said note of $40,000, the sum of S10,000, and save as aforesaid, your complain- ants have not received, nor do they hold any security or satisfaction whatever for the said judgment debt, interest and costs, and the whole of said real properties of said C, in the Counties of Wentworth and Halton, form a security insufficient by at least $20,000 for the payment of the said judgment debt of your complainants. 8. The lands mentioned in the first paragraph of this BUI have always been used together as one property, and known as the " C. Farm," of which about 180 acres are cleared, and when the said writ against lands was placed in the hands of the Sheriff of the County of Halton, as .stated in the 6th paragraph of this BUI, there was a large quantity of timber, trees, wood and underwood, and valu- able fallen timber, growing, being and lying on the said lands, of the value of at least $2,000. And the said pre- mises would, if stripped of said timber, be much less valuable as a farm, and less saleable, the said timber being required for the purposes of fencing, fuel and building on the said farm. 9. The defendant, R. J. H. has always acted, now acts, and is acting on behalf of himself and the defendant S.B.F., 80 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF as Managing Trustees under said trusts contained in said C.'s Will, and the said defendants, R. J. H. and S. B. F., threaten and intend to commit waste on the said premises, by cutting down, removing, selling, and disposing of the whole of the timber, trees, wood, umlerwood and fallen timber on the last said mentioned lands, and applying the proceeds thereof for the purposes of the said trusts, and the defendant, H., so acting as aforesaid, on behalf of himself and the said S. B. F., has offered, and now is offer- ing the same for sale, and has employed one W. C. to cut and remove the said fallen timber, a great deal of which is valuable for saw logs and fencing purposes, and has thrown down fences on said lands to enable said 0. and others the more easily to remove timber or wood fallen thereon, and said C. has removed a large quantity of such fallen timber : and unless restrained by the order and in- junction of this Honorable Court, the said defendants, H, and F., will cause the said lands to be wholly stripped of said timber, trees, wood, underwood and fallen timber. 10. The defendant, M. O'R. objects to the said proceed- ings of the defendants R. J. H. and S. B. F., and to any waste whatever being committed on said farm. The said S. B. F. in answer to enquiries in that behalf made by your complainant denies all knowledge of the said acts of the defendant R. J. H., but has in no way interfered to prevent the same or expressed his dissent or disapproval thereof, and the said R. J. H. has avoided the agent of your complainant sent to notify him to desist from the waste aforesaid. 11. The defendants, S. B. F. and R. J. H., have both actual notice and knowledge of the fact of the recovery of the said judgment by your complainants; the placing of the said writs of execution in the hands of the Sheriff of the County of Halton, and of every other fact and cir- cumstance in this Bill set forth. Your complainants therefore pray : 1. That the defendants, S. B. F. and R. J. H. may be restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court, from committing such waste as aforesaid, and from selling, or attempt- ing to sell the said timber, and other trees stand- i°& growing and being thereon, and from re- moving the said fallen timber, and from commit- ing any other waste, spoil or destruction on the said premises, and may account for the waste already committed. PROCEEDINGS IK CHANCERY — BILLS. 81 2. That the said defendants may be ordered to pay your complainants the costs of this suit. 3. That for the purposes aforesaid all such other accounts may be taken, enquiries made, and direc- tions given, as the nature of the case may require. 4. And for such further and other relief as the natui-e of the case shall require and shall seem just. 5. And your complainantvS will ever pray (tv). 59. Bill for specific perfot^mance of ivntten agreement 59. for sale of land. BUI to enforce •^ specific per- formance of an In Chancery. Xtri^d? Between— A. S Plaintiff, and L. McC Defendant. Town of Woodstock. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of A. S., of the Township of St. Vincent, in the County of Grey, and Province of Ontario, j'eoman, Sheweth as follows : 1. That by an agreement dated the 14th day of January, A.D., 1869, the above-named defendant agreed with your complainant to sell to your complainant certain freehold property therein described as all and singular (describe the land), for the price or sum of $2850, payable in the manner and on the dajs and times following : the sum of SI. 200 to be paid on "the 1st day of March, AD 1869, the sum of 81,260 to be paid on a mortgage on said lands held bj' one W. H. P., and to be paid in accordance with the conditions of said mortgage, and the remaining sum of 8390 to be paid in three equal annual instalments of 8130, with interest on the same at the rate of six per cent, per annum, as mentioned in said agreement, as will thereby more fully appear, and to which, when pro- duced, the plaintiff craves leave to refer. 2. That by the said agreement the defendant agreed to give the plaintift a good and sufficient deed of the said land in fee simple with usual covenants of warranty, and freed and discharged of aU dower and incumbrances. (u>) For simpler forms, see Nos. 35, 36. 6 82 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 3. That on the 28th day of January, A.D. 1869, the plaintiff, in consideration of the said agreement, and rely- ing upon the same, and upon the defendant's fulfilling his part thereof, paid to the said defendant the sum of $200 on account of said purchase money of the said land. 4). That on the 1st day of March, A.D. 1869, your com- plainant went to the defendant and tendered to him the sum of $1,000, being the balance of said cash payment of $1,200, and requested the defendant to fulfil his part of said agreement, the plaintiff offering to do all things necessary on his part to carry out said agreement, but the defendant refused to accept the said sum of $1,000 and re- fused to carry out said agreement, or to convey said land to the plaintiff. 5. That by the said agreement the plaintiff and defend- ant mutually agreed that if either of them should fail to perform the conditions required of them thereby, the party so failing should forfeit and pay to the other party the sum of $400. 6. That on or about the 11th day of March, A.D. 1869, the plaintiff again went to the defendant and tendered to the defendant the sum of $1,000, and also tendered to the defendant a deed in duplicate, in proper form, for execution (which the plaintiff" craves leave to refer to when produced to this Honorable Court), and desired the defendant to perform the said agreement, and execute the said deed or conveyance, but the defendant again refused, and stiU refuses to execute said deed, or to carry out his part of said agreement. 7. The plaintiff claims that he is entitled to a specific performance of said agreement on the part of the defend- ant, hereby offering to do all things necessary on his part to be done in the premises, or that in default of such specific performance, he is entitled to receive from the de- fendant the said sum of $400, and also to be repaid the sum of $200 (and interest thereon) paid by him as aforesaid to the defendant on account of said purchase money. The plaintiff, therefore, prays as follows : 1. That the said contract or agreement may be speci- fically performed by the said L. McC, the plain- tiff being ready and willing, and hereby offering to perform the same in all respects upon his part, or that in default of the said L. McC. performing same, that plaintiff may be paid the said sum of $400, and also the sum of $200 paid by him as aforesaid with interest. ' PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 83- 2. That the said sums of $400 and $200 may be de- clared to be a lien upon the said lands. 3. That the said land ma_y be sold, and the proceeds applied in payment of the said two sums of money. 4i. That the plaintiff may have such further and other relief as the nature of the case may re- quire, and as to your Lordships may seem meet. And your complainant will ever pray, (x) 60. Bill for administration and partition. 60. Bill for adminis- _ ^_ tration and In Chancery. pivrtition. Between — I. C. S., an Infant under the age of twenty-one years, by W. W. W., his next friend, Plaintiff, and J. P., R P., E. P. S., H. C. and T. C, Defendants. City of Hamilton. To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The BiU of Complaint of I. C. S., of the Town of Lo- well, Kent County, in the State of Michigan, an infant under the age of twenty-one years, by W. W. W., of the City of Hamilton, his next friend. Humbly sheweth : 1. That A. C, late of the Township of Saltfleet, in the County of Wentworth, yeoman, was, in his lifetime and at the time of his death, hereinafter mentioned, seized in fee simple or otherwise well and sufficiently entitled to the following lands and premises, that is to say : {iTisert description of lands.) 2. Being so seized, the said A. C. died on or about the 15th day of April. A. D. 1853, without having made any last will or testament. 3. The .said A. C. left him surviving his widow, the de- fendant, R. P., and the following children: — I. C, who resides in Kent County, in the State of Michigan ; M. A., wife of the defendant, P. A., who resides in the Town- ship of Caradoc, in the Coimty of Middlesex ; D. G., who married one R. G., in the year 1855 : B, S., wife of the defendant, E. P. S., of Kent County, in the State of Miclii- gan ; S. A., wife of J. A., of the Township of Cascade, in the County of Kent, in the State of Michigan ; J. G, wife {».) For another Form, see No. 33. 84 FORMS AND PB.ECBDENTS OF of C. C, of the Township of Saltfleet, in the County of Wentworth ; and the defendants H. C. and T. C, also of the said Township of Saltfleet. 4. The said R. G. died six or seven years ago. The said B. S. died about thirteen years ago, intestate, and leaving her surviving, her husband, the defendant E. P. S., and her son, your complainant herein. 5. The defendant E,. P. married the defendant, J. P. in the fall of the year 1854. 6. The defendant R. P. is entitled to dower in the said lands. 7. By Quit-claim deed, bearing date the 30th day of January A. D. 1861, and registered on the 11th day of March, A. D. 1868, the said I. C. released unto the said J. P. and R. P., all his right, title and interest in the said lands. 8. By another deed bearing date the 13th day of De- cember, A. D. 1869, and registered on the 4th day of Jan- uary, A. D. 1870, the said S. A. and J. A., released unto the said J. P. and R. P. all their right, title and interest in the said lands. 9. By a certain other Indenture bearing date the 29th day of July, A. D. 1869, and registered the 31st day of July, A. D. 1869, the said D. G. conveyed all her right, title and interest in the said lands to the said J. P. and R. P. 10. By a certain other Indenture bearing date the 29 th day of October, 1869, and registered the same day, the said M. A. and P. A. conveyed all their right, title, and in- terest in the said lands to the said J. P. and R. P. 11. By virtue of the several Indentures in the four last paragraphs mentioned, the said J. P. and R. P. are joint owners in fee simple of four undivided one-eighth shares or interest in the said realty. 12. By deed of Bargain and Sale bearing date the 19th day of May, 1870, and registered on the following day, the said J. C. and C. C. granted and conveyed all their right, title and interest in the said lands to the said H. C. 13. By Indenture of Bargain and Sale by way of Mort- gage, bearing date the 19th day of May, and registered on the same day, the said H. C. mortgaged all his inter- est in the said lands to the said J. P. and R. P., for secur- ing the sum of $700 and interest thereon. 14. By virtue of the Indentures in the two last para- graphs mentioned, the said H. C. is owner in fee simple of two undivided one-eighth shares, or interest in the said lands subject to the Mortgage aforesaid. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 85 15. The said T. C. is entitled to an undivided one-eighth share or interest in the said realty, and your complainant is entitled to the remaining one-eighth share, subject to the life interest of his father, the defendant, E. P. S. as tenant by the curtesy (y). 16. Your complainant is desirous that the said lands and premises be partitioned amongst the several parties entitled thereto, under the statutes of this Province, or if the sale thereof should on the whole be considered by this Honorable Court more advantageous to the parties inter- ested, that the sale thereof should be made accordingly and the proceeds thereof distributed among the parties entitled thereto. 1 7. The said A. C. died possessed also of personal estate of or about the value of $1,000. 18. By letters of administration bearing date the 6th day of August, A. D, 1853, the defenant R P., was by the proper court in that behalf appointed administratrix of all and singular, the personal estate and effects, rights and credits of the said A. C. 19. After the death of the said A. C. the said R. P. re- mained in possession of the said lands and premises and of the said goods, chattels and effects, until her marriage with the said defendant J. P., since which time they have been jointly in possession of the whole of the said estates. 20. Your complainant and some of the defendants have repeatedly applied to the defendant R. P. for an ac- count of the said personal estate, and a distribution there- of, and both to her and the said J. P. for an account of the rents and profits of the said realty, but they absolutely refuse to render or furnish any account thereof, or to allow your complainant or the other parties interested therein, anything whatever for the use and occupation of the said premises since the death of the said A. C. 21. The said J. P. has committed waste upon the said lands and premises, by cutting down and removing there- from and selling large quantities of pine and hardwood timber growing and being thereon ; the proceeds of which he has applied to his own use. 22. Your complainant is desirous that the personal estate of the said A. C. should be administered under the guidance and direction of this Honorable Court ; that an occupation rent of the said premises from the date of the death of the said A. C. should be fixed and the defend- ants R. P. and J. P. charged therewith ; and that the said (y) See now 35 Vic. c. 16. s. 1 (0.) 86 FOKMS AND PRECEDENTS OF J. P. should be charged with the timber converted to his own use as aforesaid. Your complainant therefore prays : — 1. That the personal estate of the said A. C. may be administered under the directionof this Honorable Court. 2. That an enquiry as to what would be a fair occupation rent of the said lands and premises may be ordered, and the defendants R. P. and J. P. may be charged with the same from the time they have been in possession ; and that the said J. P. may be ordered to account for all timber that he has removed as aforesaid. 3. That a partition of the said reality and an allotment of the several shares thereof, may be made between your complainant and the other parties interested therein. 4. Or if a sale be considered on the whole more advantageous, that a sale thereof may be ordered accordingly, and the proceeds thereof distributed among the parties entitled thereto. 5. That the dower of the said R. P. may be assigned to hei", or in the event of her consent ing thereto, that an allowance in lieu of such dower may be fixed under the direction of this Honorable Court. 6. That all necessary accounts may be taken and inquiries made. 7. That your complainant may have such fur- ther and other relief as to your Lordships may seem meet. And your complainant will ever pray, &c. o „ . ®V 6*- I^m for alimony. Bill for alimony. -^ ^ In Chancery. E— A Plaintiff, and S. — A Defendant- City of Hamilton. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Coniplaint of E. A., late of the Township of , in the County of , now of the Town- ship of , in the County of , wife of S. A., the above-named defendant, Showeth as follows : PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 87 1. The plaintiff was married to the defendant in the month of Decem&er, A.D. 1856, and they shortly after their marriage took up their residence on a farm in the said Township of , where they have till lately continued to reside as man and wife. 2. In a very short time after their said marriage, the de- fendant began to exhibit a very bad temper, and disposi- tion towards your complainant, and has continued to do so, until she was compelled to leave him as hereafter stated. 3. The defendant during all this time has been in the habit of using intoxicating drinks and has been frequent- ly so much under their influence as to become very abusive in his language to your complainant, and this has occurred so often that her life with him, during all the period above mentioned, has, from this cause alone, been one of constant unpleasantness and apprehension — quite irres- pective of the personal violence used by him towards her, hereafter particularly mentioned. 4. During this period the defendant has frequentty struck your complainant ; and has pulled her violently by the hair and otherwise aa«saulted her in so gross a manner as to compel her on several occasions to escape from him either by locking herself in a room, or by leaving the house and hiding in the adjoining premises. 0. The low, scurrilous abuse which the defendant has, during the sixteen years of their married lite, heaped on your complainant, interspersed with the personal violence he has used towards her, your complainant has (until re- cently) borne with — being unwilling to expose these un- happy private relations to the public, and hoping that time would produce a favourable change ; but her forbear- ance has brought no improvement in the conduct of the defenda"t towards her. 6. Among the numerous instances of gross personal violence inflicted on your complainant by the defendant, she avers that, about five years ago the defendant vio- lently expelled your complainant from his house, and about three years ago his abuse and threats of violence to her were so great that she in fear of her life locked herself in her room in order to be secure against his approach. On New Year's day A.D. 1868, the defendant choked your complainant. In the fall of the year 1869, he caught her by the hair and brutally dragged her around the cellar of his house, causing such apprehensions for her life that she barred herself in a room to prevent the infliction of further violence. In the month of March 88 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF A.D. 1870, he so violently struck and bruised her, that she feared he would take her life, and o# the 25th of May last, he threw at her and broke upon her head and face a number of eggs ; and choked her by the throat until she feared he would strangle her {z). 7. During all this period your complainant has dis- charged all the duties of a wife to the defendant, and she has by her exertions contributed in a great degree to the accumulation of the property which he now owns, consist- ing of a good and well-stocked farm with comfortable house and out-buildings being lot No. — , in the First Con- cession of the said Township of , worth about $4,000, and money out at interest and other personalty worth about $6,000 more. 8. Your complainant has never had any children by the defendant, and neither he nor she had any family before they were married. 9. Your complainant, in consequence solely of the con- stant abusive and violent conduct of the defendant as above detailed, and from the apprehension that her life is at no moment safe while living with the defendant, left his house and premises on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1872: 10. Your complainant has no means of living except- ing by her daily labour, and unless relief be afforded by this Honorable Court, she will be reduced to great dis- tress. 1. Your complainant, therefore, prays that she may be declared entitled to alimony from tlie defendant (and also to interim alimony) suffi- cient under the circumstances ; and that he may be decreed to pay the same to her, and that he may be ordered to pay the costs of this suit. 2. And that your complainant may have such further and other relief in the premises as the cir- cumstances of the case may require ; and that for that purpose all necessary directions may be given and accounts taken. 3. And the plaintiff will ever pray, &c. (a) (z) The several acts of violence or ocher misconduct of Defendaat intended to_ be proved at the hearing, must be specifically set forth in the bill with specific allegations as to times and places ; a slight variance however, between a date alleged and proved, would not be fatal to plaintifTs right to prove the act complained of : Rodman vs. Rodman, 20 Gt. 429. {a) For notice of claim fnr intermi alimony to be indorsed on office copy of bill. See post No. 179. PROCEEDINGS [N CHANCERY— BILLS. 89 63. Bill of intei'pleader and for injunction to restrain 62 actvy>i at law. f^.rZ\o restrain threat- In Chancery. ened actions at Between A. B Plaintiff and C. D. and E. F Defendants. City of Toronto, To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chan- cery : The Bill of Complaint of A. B., &c. (as in form No. •29.) Sheweth as follows : 1. On the 5th day of June, 1871, the plaintiff contract- ed and agreed, in writing, with one Y. Z. to purchase from him a certain lot of land, known as lot No. {describing it) for the sum of 8-5,000 ; ten per cent, of which sum the plaintiff paid to the said Y. Z. on the said oth day of June, 1871, and the balance thereof he agreed to pay to the said Y. Z. on the oth day of September, 1871. 2. On the 1st day of July, l!S71, the said Y. Z. became insolvent and made an assignment of his estate and effects to the defendant, C. D., under the provisions of the Insol- vent Act of 1869, and the said C. D. duly accepted the said assignment, and now claims to be the assignee in insolvency of the said Y. Z. 3. On the 5th day of July, 1871, the said Y. Z., by deed granted, assigned and transferred unto the said E. F. the said lands and all his estate and interest therein, subject to the contract he had entered into with the plaintiff as aforesaid, and also all his the said Y. Z.'s interest in the balance of the purchase money payable by the plaintiff, which assignment the defendant, C. D., alleges is null and void, but which assignment the said E. F. maintains is valid and effectual, notwithstanding the said assignment of the 1st day of July, 1871, to the said C. D., because the said E. F. alleges that the said Y. Z. was not, at the time of the execution of the said last mentioned assign- ment, a trader, or capable of making any assignment under the provisions of the said Insolvent Act. 4. The defendants each claim that they are entitled to the balance of the said purchase-money, and they have both served upon the plaintiff notice in writing of their respective claims, and demanded payment of the said moneys (which now amount with interest to the sum of $4,520), and each of the said defendants have forbidden 90 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF the plaintiff to pay the said moneys to the other of them. 5. The said defendants have lately threatened to com- mence actions against the plaintiff to recover the said balance of purchase-money, but no proceedings have yet been taken. 6. The plaintiff submits that the defendants ought to interplead between themselves, the plaintiff hereby oflfer- ing to pay the said sum of $4,520 into Court. The plaintiff prays as follows : 1. That the defendants may be decreed to in- terplead and settle between themselves their rights in respect of the said balance of purchase- money, the plaintiff hereby offering to pay the same as this Honorable Court shall direct. 2. That the defendants may be restrained from commencing or prosecuting an}'- action at law or other legal proceedings against the plain- tiff for the recovery of the said moneys. 3. That the defendant who may be found en- titled to the said balance of purchase-moneys may be ordered, upon payment of the same by the plaintiff, to convey the said premises to the plaintiff, or procure the same to be well and sufficiently conveyed to him. f 4. That the plaintiff may be paid his costs o this suit. 5. And that the f.plaintiff may have such fur- ther and other relief as the nature of the case may require and to this Honorable Court shall seem meet. And the plaintiff will ever pray. ¥.B. — The plaintiff is required to make an affidavit intituled in the cause " that the bill in this cause is not filed in collusion with either of the defendants in the said hill named, but merely of his own accord and for reliej in this Honorable Court ; " this affidavit must be at- tached to and filed with the bill — an affidavit by the solicitor is ordinarily insufficient. If the bill is filed by a corwpany the affidavit should be made by one of its officers a/tid should state that the company do not collude. For forms of affidavit, see post. PROCEEDINGS IX CHANCERY — BILLS. 91 Forms of upidarift^ to be attached to bill of interpleader. 63. Affidavit by -^ sole plaintiff, of in Chanceiy. no collusion, {Title of the cause.) I, A. B., of {residence and addition) the above-named plaintiff, make oath and say, that the bill in this cause hereunto annexed [or, now produced and shown to me, and marked A.], is not filed in collusion with the above- named defendants, or any or either of them ; but merely of my own accord, for relief in this Honoi-able Court. Sworn, &c. Proceed as in ante, No. 63, to make oath and say ; and ,„, ®!*; 7 mi 1 'ii • 1 • t Affida\it by continue thus : 1 he bill in this cause hereunto annexed several piain- \_or, produced and shown to us respectively, at the time of couusion." swearing this affidavit, and marked A.], is not filed by us, or any or either of us, in coUusion with the above-named defendants, or any or either of them ; but merely of our own accord, for relief in this Honorable Court. Sworn, &c. In Chancery, [Title of the cause.) I., A. B., of {residence and addition), one of the plain- Tijeu^^iy tiffs named in the bill in this cause, and hereunto annexed, one of several make oath and say as follows : ^"" I alone of the plaintiffs have attended to the matters mentioned in the biU of complaint hereunto annexed ; and my co-plaintiffs are not acquainted with the facts ; and I say that the said bill of complaint is not filed by myself, nor any of the plaintiffs thei'ein named, in collusion with the defendants, or any or either of the defendants in the said bill named ; but merely of the plaintiffs' own accord, for relief in this Honorable Court. Sworn, ifcc. Proceed us in No. 65, ante, to as follows : 66. The bill in this cause hereunto annexed [or, now pro- pubilc'^offlcer^ duced and shown to me, and marked A.], is not filed by so suing. me in collusion with the above-named defendants, or any of them, nor, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, do or does any other person or persons on be- half of the = — company, in the said bill named, 92 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF collude, nor does the said company in any way collude, with the said defendants or any of them ; but the said biU is filed merely of my own accord, as the public officer of the said company, for relief in this Honorable Court, Sworn, &c. 67. Affidavit by the plaintiff's solici- tor, of no collu- sion. In Chancery. {Title of the cause.) I, A. B., of (place of business), gentleman, the solicitor in this cause for the above-named plaintiff, make oath and say as follows : 1. Show why the affidavit it not made by the plaintiff ; e. g. : The above-named plaintiff is resident at , out of the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court. 2. The bill in this cause hereunto annexed [or, now produced and shown to me, and marked A.], is not filed, by me in collusion with the above named defendants, or any of them, nor, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, is the above-named plaintiflf, or any person or persons in his behalf,in collusion with the said defendants, or any of them, nor is the said bill filed to avoid or delay the payment of the sum of $ , in the said bill men- tioned [or as may be] ; but merely of the plaintifi''s own accord for relief in this Honourable Court. 3. Show means of knowledge. Sworn, &c. ^8. 08. Bill for Specific Performance by Vendor charg- perfomance " ing that Vendee has accepted the Title. vendor charging that vendee has tttie''*'"' ""^ {Proceed as in No. 33 to end of paragraph I .) 2. On the 10th day of November, 1871, the plaintifl's solicitor, at the defendant's request, sent to his solicitors, Messrs. A. & B., a perfect abstract of the plaintiff's title to the said lands. 3. On the 1st day of December, 1871, the said Messrs. A. & B. delivered to the plaintiflT's solicitor certain objec- tions to and requisitions upon the said title ; and the plain- tiff's solicitor, on the 3rd day of December, 1871, de- livered to the said Messrs. A. & B. a full answer to all such objections and requisitions. ' 4. No further or other objection to the said abstract or to the title of the said plaintiff has been sent to the plain- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 93 tifi 01- his solicitor by the defendant or his solicitors, and the defendant has never returned the said abstract and still retains possession thereof. •5. On or about the lOth daj"- of December, 1871, the defendant was let into possession of the said premises, and has ever since continued in the possession and in the re- ceipts of the rents and profits of the said premises. 6. Under the circumstances, the plaintiff charges that the defendant ought to be deemed to have waived all ob- jection to and to have accepted the title of the plaintiff to the said premises, and to be ordered specifically to perform the said agreement and to pay the costs of this suit. {Add paragraph 2 in form Ko 33 and prayer. Add to the prayer — " That the defendant may be ordered to pay to the plaintiff the costs of this suit.") 69. Bill for Redemption charging '^mortgagee with 69. dilapidation. demptlon charg- ing mortgagee (Proceed as in Xo. 30 to end of paragraph 2.) dilapidation. 3. On the 14th day of April, 1869, the defendant ob- tained possession of the said mortgaged premises, and has ever since continued in possession and in receipt of the rents and profits thereof. 4. At the time the defendant obtained possession of the said premises, they were in the occupation of one A. W., as a tenant to the plaintiff, at a rental of $50 per month ; and the said A. W. was a careful and respectable tenant, and had always paid his rent punctually, and had kept the said premises in proper repair ; and the said A. W. was ready and willing and offered to attorn to the said defendant upon the same terms as he had held the said premises from the plaintift" ; but the defendant refused to accept his attornment, and compelled him to quit the said premises. 5. The defendant subsequently rented the said premises to one O. D., his brother, for the sum of $30 per month rent, and the said O. D. has been in the occupation of the said premises, at such rental, since the 1st day of May, 1870 ; and the defendant refuses to give the plaintiff cre- dit for more than the said rental of $30 per month, dur- ing the time the said 0. D. has been in the occupation of the said premises, although, as the plaintiff charges and as the fact is, such rental is much less than the plaintiff could have obtained for the said mortgaged premises from 94 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF the said A. W., and from other persons, had he used rea- sonable care and diligence in renting the said premises, as the defendant well knew. (6). 6. The said 0. D., during his said tenancy, has commit- ted great waste and destruction upon the said premises, by piilling down and removing therefrom a certain barn and stable, and has suffered the houses and buildings upon the said premises to become greatly dilapidated ; and the plaintiff charges that the said defendant is liable to the plaintiff for the said waste and dilapidation. 7. The plaintiff charges that the damages he has sus- tained, by reason of the said waste and dilapidation of the said mortgaged premises, ought to be charged against the defendant, in taking his accounts as mortgagee in posses- sion ; and that the defendant is also chargeable with a large sum for rents of the said premises, which he might have received, but for his wilful neglect and default. {Add prayer, as in form No. 30, to the end oj fara- graph 1, and continue thiis.) 2. That an account may be taken with yearly rests of rents and profits of the premises comprised in the said mortgage received by the defendant or by any other person for his use, or which, without his wilful neglect and default, might have been so re- ceived. 3. That an enquiry may be made whether the said mortgaged premises have become depreciated, by reason of the waste and dilapidations afore- said, to any and to what extent ; and that what shall appear due to the plaintiff, in respect of such de- preciation, may be set off against the amount which may be found due to the defendant for principal, interest and costs ; and that the balance (if any) in favour of the plaintiff, may be ordered to be paid by the defen- dant to the plaintiff. {Add clauses 2 and 8 of prayer, as inform No. 30.) (ii) Merriam v. Cron/r, 21 Gt. 60. PROCEEDteGS IN CHANCEKY — BILLS. 95 70. Bill hy mortgagee to foreclose and to restrain waste 70. hy the mortgagor. ^^i' '» '°™^°- waste by mort- {Froceed as in Xo. 29 to end of paragraph 5.) '*°''- 6. There are divers valuable oak, pine, elm and other timber trees growing and standing upon the lands com- prised in the plaintiff's mortgage, which trees and timber are a material part of the plaintiff's said security, and, if the same, or any of them, were felled and taken away, the said mortgaged premises woiild be an insufficient security to the plaintiff for the money due thereon. 7. The defendant who is in possession of the said mort- gaged premises has lately cut down some of the said oak trees lately growing upon the said lands, and has marked for felling a large quantity of the said oak, pine and elm trees and other timber, and he has engaged a large num- ber of workmen to cut and remove, and he threatens and intends forthwith to cut down and remove a large quantity of the said trees and timber from off the said mortgaged premises. (Add to the prayer after clause 1 inform 29.) 2. That the defendant may be re- strained by the injunction of this Honorable Court from felling, cut- ting, removing or disposing of any of the timber or timber-like trees now standing or growing or being in or upon the said mortgaged premises. (Proceed as in form 29.) 71. Information to restrain encroachment on public ^j^ highway. SS't-" croachment on In Chancery. """" '''^''"'^• Between Her Majesty's Attorney-General for the Province of Ontario, at and by the relation of A. B Informant. and C. D., E. F., G. H Defendants. City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. Informing, sheweth unto your Lordships the Honorable Oliver Mowat, Her Majesty's Attorney-General for 96 FORMS AND PRECEDENT^ OF the Province of Ontario, at and by the relation of A. B., of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, and Province of Ontario, grocer. 1. That there is situate in the said city a certain high- way or public road commpnly called or known as Yonge Street, the said street is throughout its entire length sixty- six feet wide. 2. The above-named defendants C. D. and E. F. are jointly seized ill fee simple in reversion of that lot of land known as (describing it) situate on the west side of the said Yonge Street, and abutting on the same, and the de- fendant G. F. is lessee for a term of years of the said land as tenant of the said C. D. and E. F., and is in possession thereof as such lessee. 3. The defendants have surrounded the said lot with a board fence, and instead of conforming to the proper boun- dary line of the said street have enclosed within their fence a considerable portion of the soil of the said Yonge Street, and the defendant G. H. has been ever since the erection of such fence, and is now, ^in possession of the soil of the said street so enclosed a^ aforesaid. 4. The above-named relator A. B. is owner in fee of a house and grounds which abut on the said Yonge Street, and are situated on the east side thereof. 5. The board fence surrounding the said lot and enclos- ing a portion of the said street materially diminishes the width of the said street, and is, your informant submits, an illegal obstruction thereof, and deprives the relator and the many persons residing on the said street of the free and uninterrupted use thereof, to which they together with all the rest of Her Majesty's subjects, are entitled. G. Your informant therefore prays. 1. That the defendant may be restrained by the order and injunction of this Honorable Court from permitting the said board fence to remain on the soil of the said Yonge Street, or so that the said street and the right to the use and en- joyment thereof by the public may bfe in any way hindered, obstructed or interfered with. 2. That the defendants may be ordered to pay the costs of this suit. 3. That your informant may have such further or other relief as to your Lordship may seem meet. 4. And your informant wiU ever pray. (Signed) 0. Mowat. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCEBY — BILLS. 97 12. Bill to enforce Mechanics' Lien, 72. Bill to enforce -r y~^. Mechanics' lien. In (Jhancery. Between— J. E. and W. B PlaintifFs, and M.A. T Defendant City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of J. E., of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, builder, and W. B., of the same place, bricklayer, Sheweth : 1. On or prior to the 11th day of November, 1873, the defendant was and she has ever since remained and now is the lessee of certain leasehold premises in the City of Toronto, in the County of York, more particularly de- scribed in the claim or hen hereinafter set forth. 2. On or about the said 11th day of November, the plaintifis, who are mechanics, at the request of the said defendant, agreed to perform certain work and to furnish certain materials for the erection of a brick hotel upon the said land for the said defendant, and there was no agreement between the said defendant and the plaintiffs that the plaintiffs should not be entitled to a lien upon the said lands and buildings for the price of the said work and materials. 3. In pursuance of the said agreement, the plaintiffs did do a large amount of work upon and did furnish large quantities of materials, wlaich were used in and about the erection of the said brick hotel upon the said lands, to the value of $18,000, and completed the same on or about the 4th day of September, 1874, whereby the defendant be- came indebted to the plaintiffs for the said work and ma- terials in the said sum of §18,000. 4. The sum of 315,000 has been paid on account of the said sum of $18,000, leaving a balance of $3,000 still due and payable to the plaintiffi. 5. On the completion of the said work the plaintiffs became and are entitled to a lien on the said lands for the said sum of $3,000, under the provisions of " The Me- chanic's Lien Act of 1873." 6. On or about the 21st day of September, 1874, the plaintiffs, in pursuance of the said Act, caused to be filed in the Registry Office in and for the City of Toronto a statement of their said claim, which statement is in the words and figures following, that is to say : 7 98 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF " J. E., of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, " builder, and W. B., of the same place, bricklayer, under "'The Mechanics' Lien Act of 1873,' claim a lien upon " the estate or interest of M. A. T., of the said City of " Toronto, in respect of the following work and materials, "that is to say: To amount of contract $17,000 Bill of Extras. To extra stone in foundation 500 " Brick pointing 200 " Second flats of extra ^-bricks in thick- ness 300 1873. Dec. 1.— By cash $2,000 " 22.— " 1,000 1874 Jan. 5.— " 5,000 July 6.— " 7,000 $18,000 15,000 Balance $ 3,000 — " which work was done and materials provided for the " said M. A. T. on or before the 4th day of September, "A. D. 1874, the amount claimed to be due or become " due is the sum of $3,000 ; the description of the land " to be charged is as follows :— All and singular that cer- " tain parcel of land known as lot 3, on the west side of " John Street, as shown on the plan of J. S. Dennis, " P. L. S., registered in the Registry Office of the said City '• of Toronto, and numbered D 63. " Dated at the City of Toronto, in the County of ^ork, " this 21st day of September, A. D. 1874-. "Witness, \ Signed. J. E. [L.S.] " Signed. J. Barnes. / Signed. W B. [L.S.]" — which statement wasverified by an affidavit of the plain- tiffs, sworn before a Commissioner for taking affidavits in the said County of York, as required by the said statute. 7. The lands referred to in the first paragraph of this bill, and particularly described in the said claim or lien hereinbefore set forth, are the lands occupied by and usually enjoyed with the said hotel. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 99 The plaintiffs therefore pray : 1. That the defendant may be ordered to pay to the plaintiffs the said sum of $3,000, together with interest thereon and the costs of this suit. 2. And that in default of such payment the said lands and buildings, or a competent part thereof, may be sold and the proceeds thereof applied in payment of the plaintiffs' debt and the costs of this suit. 3. That for the purposes aforesaid all proper directions may be given and accounts taken. 4. And that the plaintiffs may have such fur- ther and other relief as to this Honorable Court may seem meet. And the plaintiffs wiU ever pray. G. M. 73. Bill to remove from Registry Office an improperly ._. registered plan. ifmRe^^ Office an im- properly regis- Tn (Jhancery. • teredplan. Between— F.P Plaintiff, and J. A., J. S. and J. L Defendants. Town of Barrie. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of F. P., of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, Esquire, Sheweth : 1. In the year 1853, one W. P. became, and from thence- forth until he conveyed the same as hereinafter mentioned continued to be the owner in fee of that certain parcel of land known as lot 5, in the 6th Concession of the Town- ship of Orillia, in the County of Simcoe. 2. The said W. P., while such owner as aforesaid, by In- denture dated the 29th day of December, 1860, mortgaged the said premises to Mary and Jessie McM., and after- wards, by Indenture dated the 19th day of April, 1870, he released to the said Mary and Jessie McM. his equity of redemption therein. 3. By deed dated the 10th day of November, 1871, the said Mary and Jessie McM. conveyed the said premises to the plaintiff in fee simple for a valuable consideration then paid to them by the plaintiff. 4. Before pajriog his purchase money and accepting the said conveyance, the plaintiff searched the title of the 100 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF said premises in the Registry Office of the said County of Simcoe, and as the result of such search ascertained that there was no deed, conveyance, plan or other instrument' registered against the said premises which in any way af- fected or impaired the registered title of the said Mary and Jessie McM. to the same, and thereupon the plaintiff paid his purchase money and became and now is the owner in fee of the said premises. 5. The plaintiff caused the conveyance of the said premises to him to be registered in the said Registry Of- fice on the 8th day of January, 1872. 6. The said premises were at the time of the plaintiff's purchase thereof, and still are, uncultivated and in a state of nature, but the plaintiff has ever since paid all taxes assessed upon the same, but the plaintiff is not nor has nor have any person or persons ever been in the actual occu- pation of the same or any part thereof. 7. The said premises are wholly situate in the Town- ship of Orillia, near to the Village of Orillia, in the said County of Simcoe, and are divided from the said Village by a strip of land running the whole length of the said lot and containing about five acres. 8. By deed poll dated the 6th day of December, 1861, and registered in the said Registry Office on the 15th day of the same month, made by the Sheriff of the said County of Simcoe, the said Sheriff purported to convey to the defendant J. A., certain lands described in the said deed poU as "all that certain parcel or tract of land situate in the Village of Orillia, in the County of Simcoe, con- taining by admeasurement two acres, be the same more or less, being composed of VUlage lot No. 9, on the south side of St. Andrew Street, Cameron's survey in the said Village of Orillia," and the said defendant J. A., now claims to own the lands in the said deed described. 9. By a certain other deed poll dated the 12th day of December, 1861, and registered in the said Registry Office on the 19th day of the same month, made by the said Sheriff, the said Sheriff also purported to convey to the defendant, J. S., certain lands in the said deed described respectively as lot No. 8 on the south side of St. George Street, in the Village of Orillia, Cameron's survey, and lot No. 1, on the south side of St. George Street in the said Village of Orillia, Cameron's survey, and the said de- fendant J. S., now claims to be the owner of the said lands in the said deed described. 10. By two certain other deeds poU dated respectively the 25th day of February, 1862, and registered on the PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 101 27th day of March in the same year, and made by the said Sheriff, the said Sheriff also purported to convey to the defendant J. S., certain lands in the said deeds de- scribed respectively as lots 1 and 2 on the north side of ,- George Street, in the Village of OriMia, two acres, Came- ;' . ron's survey, and the said defendant J. S. now claims to \ \ . ^ be the owner of the said lands in the said two deeds de- scribed. 11. One Cameron did in fact make a survey and regis- ter a plan of the said Village of OriUia, but he never made a survey or registered a plan of the said premises so conveyed to the plaintiff as .aforesaid, and no plan re- lating to or affecting the said premises or any part there- of was ever registered until the registration of the pre- tended copy of a plan by the defendant J. A., as herein- after mentioned. 12. On the 29th day of July, 1873, the defendant, J. A., without making any survey, adopted a plan or sketch of the plaintiffs said lot, made in the year 1853, and caused to be registered in the said Registry Office what purports to be a" copy of the said plan, whereby the plaintiff's said lot is represented as forming part of the Village of Orillia, and whereby his said lot appears to be subdivided into 50 different lots, with six different streets intersecting the same, as by the said pretended copy of plan will, when produced, more fuUy appear. 13. The said six streets depicted on the said pretended copy of plan are named respectively St. David Street, St. Andrew Street, St. Patrick Street and St. George Street, and the said lots or subdivisions are numbered on the said pretended copy plan with reference to the said streets. But the plaintiff charges that the pretended copy plan is not in fact a true copy of the plan or sketch which was actually made in the year 1853, but that, on the con- trary, in the original plan made in the year 1853 the streets shown thereon were not designated by any name whatever, but in the said pretended copy the said de- fendant J. A., or some one acting in his behalf, has arbi- tarily assigned names to the different streets shown on the said plan without knowing or having any means of know- ing by what names the said streets were respectively in- tended to be designated by those by or for whom the said original plan or sketch was prepared. 14. There are in fact no streets in the said Village of OriUia called St. David Street, St. Andrew Street, St. Patrick Street, or St. George Street. 15. The effect of the registration of the said pretended 102 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF copy of a plan has been and is to make the hereinbefore described parcels of land owned or claimed to be owned by the defendants under the respective deeds poll men- tioned in the 8th, 9th and 10th paragraphs hereof, appear to form part of the plaintifi's said lot, and the defendants now claim to be entitled under the said deeds poll to vari- ous portions of the plaintiff's said lot, according to the said pretended copy plan. 16. The plaintiff charges and the fact is that no ori- ginal plan of the plaintiff's said lot corresponding with the said pretended copy so registered by the defendant J. A. was ever made; but if any such plan ever were made it was not registered in the said Registry Office before or at the dates of the said advances by and conveyances to the "said Mary and Jessie McM., of the said lot 5, and they had no notice or knowledge of any such plan, and they advanced and paid their money and received the said conveyances to themselves in good faith, and they were in fact innocent purchasers for value of the said lands without notice of the said plan. 17. The plaintiff further charges that before and at the date of the payment by him of his piirchase money, and the conveyance of the said lot 5 to him, no plan of the said lot was registered in the said Registry Office, and he paid his said purchase money and received his said conveyance in good faith and without notice or know- ledge of any such plan, and he is in fact an innocent pur- chaser for value of the said lands without notice of the said plan, and the plaintiff clai.ns the benefit of the Reg- istry laws in force in this Province. 18. The plaintiff submits that the said pretended copy of plan could not legally be registered on the strength of the supposed survey of 1853, and that it forms a cloud on the plaintiff's title to the said lot 5, and that the said registration ought to be declared illegal and void and ought to be cancelled, 19. The plaintiff further submits that while the regis- tration of the said pretended copy of plan remains un- cancelled the said deeds poll form a cloud upon the title of the plaintiff to the said lot ; and if for any reason this Court should see fit to permit the said registration to re- main uncancelled, then the plaintiff avers that at and be- fore the time when the said Mary and Jessie McM. ad- vanced their moneys and received the said conveyances of the said lot 5, they had no notice or knowledge of the said deeds poll, or of any or either of them, and they be- came and were purchasers of the said lot for value in good PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 103 faith and without notice of the said deeds poll, or any or either of them; and that at and before the time when the plaintiff paid his purchase money and received his said conveyance of the said lot No. 5, he had no notice or knowledge of the said deeds poll or of any or either of them, and he was and is a purchaser for value without notice thereof, and he claims the benefit of the Registry laws in force in this Province, and the plaintiff submits that the said deeds poU should, in the event of the said registration of the said pretended copy of plan remaining uncancelled, be delivered up to be cancelled, or that the defendants should be ordered to execute such instruments as shall remove the cloud on the plaintiff's said title created by their registration. '20. The plaintiff did not intend that the said lot 5 should be subdivided or laid out in lots and streets, and such subdivision is altogether contrary to his intention and wish. 21. The defendants, sometimes pretend that the de- fendant J. A. was, at the time of the registration of the said pretended copy of plan, the owner of the lot now claimed by him, and as such entitled to register a plan or a copy of a plan which it is alleged was made by a former owner of the said lands ; but the plaintiff alleges that he had no such right, and in any event the plaintiff shows that by reason of the facts and circumstances hereinbefore set forth, and by force of the Registry laws in force in this Province, the said defendant was not, and is not, and cannot rightfully claim to have been or to be the owner of the said lot as depicted on the said pretended copy of plan, as against the plaintiff, and the plaintiff further shews that even if the said defendant, J. A., had been or was such owner, and therefore entitled to register such plan, the copy of said plan so registered is not a true copy of the original plan prepared by or for the original owner of the said lands, and is not certified to by the original owner of said lands or his representatives as required by law, and is not in other respects a compliance with the statutes in force in this Province with respect to the sur- vey of lands and the registration of deeds and plans and other instruments. 22. The plaintiff and the defendants are the only per- sons who appear by the books in the said Registry Office to be affected by the registration of the said pretended copy of plan. 23. The said defendants are not, nor is, nor are any or either of them in the actual possession of the parcels of 104 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF the said lot No. 5, respectively claimed by them or of any part thereof. The plaintiff therefore prays : 1. That it may be declared that the said pre- tended copy of plan and the registration thereof, are illegal and void as against the plaintiff and that the registration of the said pretended copy of plan may be ordered to be cancelled. 2. Or if for any reason this Honourable Court should see fit to permit the said registration to remain uncancelled, then that the same may be declared to be inoperative and of no force or effect as against the plaintiff's right to the said lot, and that the said deeds poU may also be de- clared void as against the plaintiiFs said title and that the registrations thereof form a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title, and that the de- fendants may be ordered to deliver up the said deeds poll to be cancelled, or to execute such in- struments as shall remove the said cloud. 3. That the plaintiff may be paid his costs of this suit, and may have such further and other relief as may seem just. And the plaintiff will ever pray. CM. 74. 74. Bill to set aside By-law of Municipal Corporation By-law af mini- granting a Bonus to a Railway Company . cipai corporation granting a bonus to a Railway In Chanccry. °'^^"'^' Between— G. F. and J. G., the elder, G. N., and R. M., who sue on behalf of them- selves and aU other Ratepayers of the Township of Turnberry, except the de- fendant, J. M., Plaintiffs, and The Wellington, Grey and Bruce Rail- way Company, the Corporation of the Township of Turnberry, W. McG., and J. M Defendants. City of London. To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bm of Complaint of G. F., J. G., the elder, G. N., and R. M., all of the Township of Turnberry, in the County of Huron, Yeomen, who sue on behalf of themselves and PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 105 all other Ratepaj-ers of the said Township of Turnberry, except the defendant, J. M. Sheweth as follows : 1. By an Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Canada, passed in the 27th and 2Sth Years of the E,eign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and Chaptered 93, the above named defendants, the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railwaj' Company, were incorporated with power and authority to lay out, construct, make and finish a double or single Iron Eailwa}- from the Town of Guelph to the Village of Southampton or other point on Lake Huron, in the County of Bruce, with a branch, should they so desire it, to the Town of Owen Sound in the County of Grey ; and other powers and authorities were by the said Act conferred upon, and vested in the said defendants the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway Company. 2. By an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, passed in the olst year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, and Chaptered 13, after reciting that the said Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway Company had by their petition set forth that various Municipalities to the , north and north-west of the Town of Guelph being deeply interested in the establishment of Railways, and being destitute of proper facilities for communicating with the various Produce Markets of the Province were desirous of aiding the undertaking of the said Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway Company, by free grants or donations of debentures by way of bonus ; but that no means ex- isted by law of granting such proposed aid, except by the subscription of stock, which the said Municipality desired to avoid, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for any Municipality interested in the said undertaking, to pass a By-law or By-laws authoriz- ing aid to the said Railway, by the issue of Debentures, to be given to the said Railway Company, as a free gift or donation, by way of bonus, upon such terms and sub- ject to such restrictions and conditions as might be mutu- ally agreed on between snch Municipality and the Direc- tors of the said Railway Company ; and the Directors for the time being were authorized and empowered, on behalf of the Company, to enter into an agreement or agreements for the due performance of anj' such terms and conditions as might be contained in such By-law, or mutually agreed upon between said Directors and the Council of such Municipality ; provided always, that any such By-law to be valid, should be made in conformity with the laws of the said Pro\ince respecting Municipal Institutions. 106 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 3. By the said in part last recited Act, it was further enacted that it should be lawful for the Council of such Municipality, with the assent of the Ratepayers, at the request of the Railway Company, from time to time, to make such alterations in the conditions of such By-laws as might be found necessary or expedient, due notice be- ing given for the same period, and in the same manner as required under the I96th section of the Municipal Act, and that a copy of any By-law containing such altera- tions, should be forthwith transmitted to the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario. 4. The defendants, the Corporation of the Township of Turnberry, are a Municipal Corporation under the statutes in that behalf, and a Municipality within the meaning of the last mentioned Act of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario ; and the plaintiffs have for several years been, and now are, Ratepayers of the said Township, duly qualified, and having the right to vote upon the By-law hereinafter mentioned. 5. The Council of the said Municipality during the year 1871, wa^ composed of the following persons, viz ; — the Defendant, J. M., Reeve ; W. C, Deputy Reeve ; and J. H., W. H. L., and D. H., Councillors. 6. At a meeting of the said Council, held on the 14!th day of August, 1871, a resolution was passed in the words and figures following ; that is to say, — " That this Coun- " cil submit a By-law to the Ratepayers of this Town- " ship, to grant a bonus of $28,000, to aid in the construc- "tiouof the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway, and " that a vote of the electors be taken at Lot 15, Con. 7, on "the 11th September next (1871), and that James John- " ston be Returning Officer." 7. In pursuance of the said resolution, and on the 11th day of September, 1871, the said Council pretended or assumed to submit to the said Ratepayers a By-law, and on the conclusion of the voting thereon, the same was declared carried by a majority of twelve of the Ratepayers who voted upon said By-law. 8. The said By-law is in the words and figures fol- lowing : — "A BY-LAW. " To aid the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway Com- pany by a free grant or donation of debentures by way of bonus, to the extent of $28,000, subject to certain terms, restrictions and conditions." " Whereas, by cei'tain Acts passed by the Legislature of PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 107' the Province of Ontario, the Municipalities therein re- ferred to are authorized to aid the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway, by free grants or donations of Debentures by way of Bonus. And whereas the Municipal Council of the Township of Turnberry, being one of the Muni- cipalities so authorized, are desirous of aiding the said Bailway by the free grant or donation of Debentures, to the extent of Twenty-eight thousand Dollars, and propose to issue Debentures for that purpose. And whereas it will require the sum of $3,080 to be raised annually by special rate for the payment of the said Debentures, and the interest thereon as hereinafter mentioned. " And whereas, the amount of the whole rateable pro- perty of the said Municipality, irrespective of any future increase of the same, and also irrespective of any income to be derived from the temporary investment of the Sink- ing Fund, hereinafter mentioned, or any part thereof, according to the last revised Assessment Roll, of the said Municipality, being for the year 1871, was $286,500, (Two hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred Dollars.) " And whereas the amount of the existing debt of the said Municipality is as follows: Principal, the sum of nothing ; Interest, the sum of nothing ; making in the aggregate the sum of nothing, of which Interest no por- tion is in arrear. " And whereas, for paying the Interest and creating an equal yearly Sinking Fund for paying the said sum of $28,000, and Interest, as hereinafter mentioned, it will re- quire an equal annual special rate of one and one-tenth cents in the dollar, in addition to all other rates to be levied in each year." " Be it therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of the Township of Turnberry : — 1. " That it shall be lawful for the Reeve of the said Township, and he is hereby required to issue Debentures, to the extent of Twenty-eight thousand Dollars in sums not less than $100 each, which Debentures shall be sealed with the seal of the said Municipal Council, and be signed by the said Reeve, and countersigned by the Treasurer." 2. " That the said Debentures shall be made payable in. twenty years from the day hereinafter mentioned for this By-law to take effect, at the Office of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, at Goderich: and shall have attached to them Coupons for the payment of Interest. 3. " That the said Debentures shall bear Interest at and after the rate of six per cent, per annum from the date 108 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF thereof, which Interest shall be payable on the first days of January and July in each year. 4. " That for the purpose of forming a Sinking Fund for the payment of the said Debentures, and the Interest at the rate aforesaid to become due thereon, an equal special rate of one and one-tenth cents in the doUar, shall in addition to all other rates be raised, levied and collected in each year, upon all the rateable property in the said Municipality, during the continuance of the said Deben- tures, or any of them. " Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that this By-law is passed subject to the following stipulations and conditions : — 1. " That before the Reeve shall issue the said Deben- tures, the Railway Company shall furnish an agreement under the seal of the Company (a copy whereof has been submitted to and approved of by this Council), undertak- ing and binding the Company in the manner set forth therein, to commence the extension therein referred to, that is to say, the extension of the said Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway, through South Bruce and North Huron toLucknow, within three months after the final pass- ing of this By-law, and to complete the same to Lucknow ready for traffic, within two years from that time ; and to erect a station at or near to Bluevale, and another at or near to Wingham. " And provided, that the Debentures shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, or in one -of the chartered banks of this Province, or of the late Province of Canada, and the same shall be delivered to the Company on the certificate of the engineer of the Company, confirmed by the certificate, for the time being, of the Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, as the work progresses through the Township of Turnberry, the production of which certificate shall entitle the Com- pany to demand and receive from the said Municipality Debentures to the amount so mentioned, with the current coupon and those yet to mature. " And provided further, that if the work shall not be commenced within the said period of three months above specified, it shall be optional with the Council, by re- solution duly passed to that effect, to declare this By-law and the agreement founded thereon, cancelled and at an end. 5. " That this By-law shall take effect and come into operation upon the 2nd (second) day of October, A.D. 1871." PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. lO^- 6. " That the said Debentures shall be deposited within onemonth after the final passingof this By-law, either with the Provincial Treasurer, or in one of the chartered banks of this Province, or of the late Province of Canada. 7. " And be it further enacted, that the votes of the electors of this Municipality shall be taken upon this By- law, as follows, namely : At the place hereinafter men- tioned and referred to in the notice appended to this By- law, being the place at which the elections of members of Council are held, on the eleventh day of September next (1871), at the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon, and ending at five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and that the following person shall be Returning Ofiicer to take the votes at such place : — " Returning Officer, James Johnston. Place of voting, lot 15, concession 7, Turnberry." 9. The said By-law was not, prior to submitting the same to the ratepayers of the said Municipality, read a first and second time before the said Council, as by law required. 10. In and by the agreement between the said defend- ants the Railway Company and the said Council re- ferred to in the said By-law, to be furnished by the said Railway Company under the seal of the said Company, and a copy whereof had been submitted to and approved by the said Council, it was expressly stipulated and agreed, that the said By-law and agreement were based upon the contingency of the said Railway Company ob- taining from the Government of the Province of Ontario a grant of at least the minimum amount authorized to be granted in aid of Railways, out of the funds set apart and designated as the " Railway Fund," in an Act of the Le- gislature of the said Province, passed in the 34th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and chaptered 2, and by the same agreement it was provided that if the amount to which the said Railway Company was entitled was not obtained within three months from the passing of the By-law, the said agreement was at the option of either party to be cancelled and rescinded, and the Com- pany were not in such event to be entitled to the said De- bentures but the said By-law was to be treated as if it had never been made, ratified or passed. 11. The said stipulation and agreement were well known and understood by the ratepayers of the said Township, and it was strongly urged upon and represented to the said ratepayers, by the supporters of the said By- 110 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF law in the interest of the said Railway Company, as a principal inducement for voting in favour of the said By- law, that in the event of tlie same being passed the rate- payers of the Township would not be taxed for the said Debentures, unless within the three months specified in the said agreement after the passing of the said By-law the said Railway Company procured from the Grovern- ment as aforesaid a grant of at least the minimum amount authorized to be granted in aid of Railways as aforesaid, and a great number of those ratepayers who voted in favour of the said By-law, so voted upon the faith of the said stipulation and agreement, and upon the understand- ing that they would not be burdened or taxed for the said Debentures, unless the said grant was obtained as aforesaid. 12. The plaintiffs charge that had it not been for such representations as aforesaid, and the understanding of the ratepayers as to the said stipulation and agreement as aforesaid, the said By-law would not have been passed by the said ratepayers, but on the contrary would have been rejected by a large majority. 13. A large number of persons who voted in favour of the said By-law were persons who were not duly qualified or entitled to vote upon the said By-law, the said persons either not having their names upon the Assessment Roll of the said Township at aU, or being assessed in respect of property which would not entitle or qualify them legally to vote upon the said By-law, or being persons owning or holding no property in the said Township, or owning or holding no property which would entitle or qualify them legally to vote upon the said By-law ; and some persons voted more than once in favour of the said By- law, and the plaintiffs charge that upon a scrutiny and enquiry into the validity and legality of the votes given and recorded in favour of the said By-law, a large num- ber of them wiU be found illegal and improper, for the reasons above stated, as well as for other good and valid reasons. 14. Among the persons so voting, and who were not duly qualified or entitled to vote, as aforesaid, are the fol- lowing, that is to say: E. E., R. S., I. T., H. B., J. McD., W. L., R. W., J. F., A. G., W. M., J. R., W. R, M. F J A J. L., the elder, P. W., W. A. C, T. McC, the elder, H. K, J. K., R. C, C. G., J. L., J. G., and others. 15. The plaintiffs allege, that the said Railway Com- pany paid divers sums, and made divers promises of re- ward and emolument, and held out inducements of per- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. Ill sonal advantage to several of the ratepayers of the said Township, in order to procure their ^'otes in favour of the said By-law ; and that several of the said ratepayers of the said Township were, by bribery and corruption, as aforesaid, induced to vote, and did vote in favour of the said By-law. 16. The plaintiffs charge, and the fact is, that the said By-law was not duly passed by a majority of the duly qualified ratepayers of the said Township, entitled to vote upon the said By-law, but on the contrary, the majority of the valid and legal votes recorded upon the said By- law, was in favour of rejecting the same, and that the same is not a valid and legal By-law. 17. After the said By-law was declared carried, as aforesaid, the same was at a special meeting of the said Council, held on the 21st day of September, 1871, read a first, second and third time, before and passed by the said Council, which said action of the said Council was, at a meeting thereof held on the 2nd day of October, 1871, confirmed by a resolution of the said Council, passed at the said last mentioned meeting. 18. The plaintiffs show, that previous to the said By- law having been submitted to the said ratepayers, as aforesaid, the same had not been read a first time, or a first and second time, as by law required, and the plain- tifis submit and charge, that by reason of such omission on the part of the said Council, the said By-law could not legally be submitted to the votes of the ratepayers, and was not capable of ratification, and is not a legal and valid By-law. 19. Shortly after the said By-law was declared passed by the said Council, as aforesaid, the agreement referred to in the said By-law was duly signed and sealed on behalf of the said Railway Company, and delivered into the cus- tody of the defendant, J. M., who now has the same in his possession; and the plaintiffs crave leave to refer thereto when produced to this Court. 20. Sometime in the month of November, 1871, the said Company having ascertained, as the fact was, that they would not be able to obtain from the Government a grant out of the said Railway Fund, as aforesaid, within the period of three months from the passing of the said By-law, and that they were therefore unable and could not entitle themselves to call upon the said Township to issue the Debentures provided for in the said By-law, made some application to the said Council, or the mem- bers thereof the nature whereof the plaintiffs are unable 112 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF to set forth, for the purpose and with the view of altering the terms, conditions and stipulations of the said agree- ment, so signed and delivered by the Railway Company, as aforesaid, in order that the said Company might be put in a position to demand the said Debentures from the said Township, notwithstanding their failure to procure the said grant within the said period. 21. On or about the 25th day of November, 1871, anew agreement was drawn up, signed and delivered by the said Railway Company to the said defendant, J. M., as the Reeve of the said Council, in which said agreement the stipulation and agreement hereinbefore set forth, with respect to the said Railway Company obtaining the said grant within three months from the passing of the said By-law, was omitted and in lieu thereof was inserted a proviso, that the said agreement was based upon the con- tingency of obtaining from the Government of Ontario at least the minimum amount authorized to be granted to railways, as aforesaid ; and in the event of such aid not being obtained, the agreement should, at the option of the Company, be cancelled and rescinded ; but no time was limited within which the said grant was to be obtained, and no option to rescind the same was given to the said Township, and the plaintiffs crave leave to refer to said agreement when produced. 22. The plaintiffs show that the said last mentioned agreement is materially different from the agreement upon the faith of which the said Bjr-law was submitted to and voted upon by the said ratepayers, and is in direct viola- tion of the representations and understanding upon which the said By-law was voted for and declared carried, as aforesaid, and no By-law containing such alteration of the terms and conditions of the said By-law was ever sub- mitted to the said ratepayers, or assented to by them as required by the Statutes hereinbefore referred to, nor was the consent of the said ratepayers thereto ever obtained, nor the proceedings prescribed by the said 196th Section of the Municipal Act ever taken with regard thereto. 23. The said defendant J. M., as such Reeve as afore- said assumed to accept the said last mentioned agreement in lieu of and in substitution for the said former agree- ment and he assumed to sign and seal the said Debentures mentioned in the said By-Law, on behalf of the said Township. 24. On the 1st day of January, 1872, the Election of Reeve, Deputy Reeve and Councillors for the said Town- ship, for the year 1872, was held pursuant to the statutes PROCEEBINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. US. in that behalf, and the principal question upon which the Electors of the said Township pronounced an opinion by their votes, was the conduct of the then members with regard to the said By-Law, and at such Election none of the former members of the said Council were re-elected. 25. The defendant, J. M., having determined to aid the said Railway Company in obtaining the said Debentures,, caused a special meeting of the said old Council to b& called at the instance, and request of the Directors of the- said Railway Company, for the 8th day of January, 1872,. and the said meeting was attended by the said J. M., Reeve, W. C, Deputy Reeve and J. H., and W. H. L.,^ Councillors ; the said D. H., not having received any notice of such meeting as by law required, and at such meeting a resolution was passed that the said Debentures so signed and sealed by the said defendant J. M., on be- half of the said Township, should be placed in the hands of the Provincial Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, and that the said defendant J. M., should deposit the same forthwith, but the plaintiffs allege that the said meeting was not duly called, and was wholly irregular ; and that the said resolution could not and did not give the said defendant J. M., any power or authority to deposit the said Debentures as therein mentioned. 26. In pursuance of the said resolution, the said de- fendant J. M., undertook to deposit the said Debentures with the Provincial Treasurer, as aforesaid ; but before depositing the same as directed by the said resolution, the said defendant J. M., communicated the said resolu- tion and his intention to deposit the said Debentures to the defendant W. McG., who is the President of the said Railway Company, and thereupon the said defendants J. M., and W. McG., assumed to again alter the said agree- ment entered into on the 2oth day of November, 1871, by striking out and cancelling the proviso that in the event of the said aid not being obtained, the said agree- ment should at the option of the said Railway Company,, be cancelled and rescinded. 27. The plaintiffs shew, that the said alteration was made in the agreement theretofore signed and sealed on the part of the said Railway Company, and the Munici- paKty of the Township of Turnberry, and that the said alteration was effected by striking out or obliterating with a pen the proviso in the last preceding paragraph referred to ; and the plaintiffs charge, and the fact is, that the said defendant J. M., had not authority, nor was he em- powered, on behalf of the said Municipality, to make or 8 114 FOEMS AND PRECEDENTS OF consent to any or such alteration, as aforesaid, and the same was a -wholly unauthorized act on the part of the said defendants. 28. After the said alteration had been eflfected, the said defendant J. M. deposited the said Debentures with the Provincial Treasurer of this Province, in whose custody the same now are. 29. The said defendants, the Eailway Company, did not, within the period of three months from the passing of the said By-law, obtain, nor have they since obtained, nor are they in a position to obtain from the Government a grant out of the said Railway Fund in aid of their said undertaking ; but, nevertheless, they insist and claim that they are entitled to the benefit of the said Debentures, and to have the same from time to time delivered to them by the said Provincial Treasurer, in accordance with the terms of the said By-law ; and they threaten, and intend to and will, unless restrained by the injunction of this Court, require and procure the said Provincial Treasurer to deliver to them from time to time such portions of the said Debentures as the amount of work certified to be done, according to the terms of the said By-law will enable them to demand. 30. The plaintiffs submit, that by reason of the said By-law not having been read before the said Council, be- fore the same was submitted to the ratepayers of the said Township, as in the 18th paragraph hereof set forth, the said Debentures could not be legally issued under the authority thereof, and that the plaintiflTs and the other ratepayers of the said Township are not bound by the said By-law, and ought not to be called upon to meet or pay the said Debentures. 31. The plaintiffs further submit that by reason of the illegal votes recorded in favour of the said By-law, and by reason of the same not having in fact been ratified or passed by a majority of the ratepayers of the said Town- ship qualified and entitled to vote thereon, and by reason of a large number of votes in favour of the said By-law having been procured by bribery and corruption practised by and on behalf of the said Railway Company, the said By-law is not binding on the plaintiffs and the other rate- payers of the said Township, and that they ought not to be called on to meet or pay the said Debentures. 32. The plaintiffs further submit that by reason of the material alterations and variations of the said agreement upon the faith of which the said By-law was voted for and declared passed hereinbefore set forth, the said De- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 115 bentures have been illegally and improperlj' issued and deposited with the Provincial Treasurer, and that they ought to be deUvered up to be cancelled. 33. The plaintiffs further submit that the defendants the Railway Company ought to be restrained from requir- ing or procuring, or endeavouring to procure, the said Pro- vincial Treasurer to deliver to them any of the said De- bentures, and from in any other way dealing, or attempt- ing to deal with the said Debentures or any of them. 34. The defendants the said M., and the said Railway Company and the said McG., combined and confederated together in order to procure the said resolution of the 8th January, 1872, to be passed with the intent of fraudu- lently obtaining the said Debentures to be issued contrary to the contract with the said Township, upon which the same had originally been agreed to be issued and contrary to law, and the passing and acting upon such a resolution was a fraud upon the ratepayers of the said Township. 35. The defendants J. M., and W. McG., have fraudu- lently combined together in altering the said agreement, and in aiding the said Railway Company to obtain the said Debentures and the benefit thereof, notwithstanding the failure of the said Railway Company to comply with the terms and conditions of the agreement, upon the faith of which the said By-law was declared passed, as afore- said, and they ought to be ordered to pay the plaintiffs costs of this suit. The plaintiffs therefore pray — 1. That the said By-law may be declared ille- gal and invalid, and may be set aside and quashed ; and that the plaintiffs and the other Ratepayers of the said Township may be de- clared not liable to meet or pay the said Deben- tures issued in pretended pursuance thereof, as aforesaid. 2. That it may be declared that the said De- bentures were illegally and improperly issued, and that the same may be delivered up to be cancelled. 3. That the said defendants the Railway Com- pany and W. McG., their President, may be res- trained by the Order and Injunction of this Court from requiring or procuring, or endeavour- ing to procure, the said Provincial Treasurer to deliver to them any of the said Debentures, and from dealing, or in any way attempting to deal with the said Debentures, or any of them. 116 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 75. Bill by creditor to wind up Joint Stock Company. 75. pany. 4. That the plaintiffs may be paid their costs of this suit, and may have such further and other relief as may appear just. Bill by creditor to wind up Joint Stock Com- In Chancery. Between — J. M., on behalf of himself and all other creditors of the defendants, the P. L. A. and I. Company, who shall come in and contribute to the ex- penses of this suit Plaintiff, and The P. L. A. and I Company, J. H. C, H. R, D. T., T. W., B, W. S., H. R., J. S. D., J. T., and D. M. and C. E. C, A. A. K, R. J. 0. and S. J. B Defendants City of Toronto. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of J. M., of the Township of Vaughan, in the County of York, farmer, Sheweth : 1. By an Act of Parliament of the late Province of Canada, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, Chapter 111, entitled "An Act to incorporate the P. L. A. and I. Company," the defend- ants, the P. L. A. and I. Company were duly incorporated to carry on in the said Province of Canada, now forming the Province of Ontario, and elsewhere, business such as is usually entertained and carried on hj Life Assurance and Investment Companies. 2. It was in and by the said Act provided, that thfe capital stock of the said corporation should, until other- wise determined as therein provided, consist of the sum of £100,000, and should be divided into 5,000 shares of £20 each, which shares should be, and the same were by the said Act, vested in the stockholders in the said Com- pany, their successors and assigns, according to the shares and interests which they might subscribe, purchase, ac- quire or hold in the same, and that the said stockholders should pay their shares respectively when called upon to do so by the Directors of the said Company. 3. It was also in and by the said Act provided, that so soon as 2,500 of the said shares should have been sub- PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 117 Bcribed for, and 20 per cent should have been actually paid thereon, the said Company should have power and legal authority to make and effect contracts of assurance with any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, upon life or lives, or in any way dependant upon life or lives, and to grant or seU annuities, either for hves or otherwise, and on survivorships, and to purchase annu- ities, to grant endowments for children or other persons, and to receive investments of money for accumulation, to purchase contingent rights, whether of reversion, remain- der, annuities, life policies, or other, and generally to en- ter into any transactions depending upon the contin- gency of life, and all other transactions usually entered into by Life Assurance Companies, including reassurance. 4. It was further in and by the said Act provided, that the business of the said Company should be conducted by a Board of twelve Directors, one of whom should be chosen President, one Vice-President, and one Managing Director, and that a general meeting of the stockholders of the said Company should be holden in the City of To- ronto, at the place of business of the said Company, on the first Tuesday in the month of June, in each and every year, and that at such meetings the three Directors whose names should stand first on the roll or list of Directors, should be held to vacate their seats, and that the stock- holders should proceed to elect by ballot three stockholders to serve as Directors for the ensuing four years, and that if any Director of the said Company should die, resign, or become disqualified or incompetent to act as a Director, the remaining Directors, if they should think proper so to do, might elect in his place any stockholder duly qualified to be a Director. .5. And it was further in and by the said Act provided, that the Directors of the said Company should have the management and superintendence of the affairs of the said Company, and might lawfully exercise all the powers of the said Company, and might use and afibc, or caused to be used and affixed, the seal of the Company to any docu- ment or paper which in their judgment might require the same, and might make and enforce the calls upon the shares of the respective shareholders, and might appoint the times and places of holding meetings, and might divide and allot among the assurers, upon the participa- tion scale, so much of the profits realized from that branch, and might make anj- payments and enter into all con- tracts for the execution of the purposes of the Company, and do and perform all other matters and things necessary 118 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF for the transaction of the affairs of the said Company, and might generally deal with, treat, sell, and dispose of, and exercise all other acts of ownership over the lands, pro- perty and effects of the said Company in such manner as they should deem exi)edient and conducive to the benefit of the said Company ; but for further particulars of the powers of the said Directors, and of the business to be carried on by the said Company, the plaintiff craves leave to refer this Honourable Court to the said Act. 6. It was also in and by the said Act provided, that the shares of the said capital stock should be transferable, but that no transfer should be valid until sanctioned and approved by the Directors, and duly registered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose by the Secretary, and that after any call had been duly made no person should be entitled to sell or transfer any share he might possess, . until he should have paid aU calls, for the time being, due on any share held by him. 7. It was also in and by the said Act provided, that if any stockholders should, for the space of thirty days, next after such call, neglect or refuse to pay his ratable share he should forfeit the sum of ten shillings for each share, and in case he should continue to refuse or neglect, for the space of sixty days, to pay such call, the Directors might declare such shares forfeited, or might sue such de- faulting stockholder for the amount of such call. 8. And it was also in and by the said Act provided, that the said Directors should cause to be yearly pre- pared and submitted to the said stockholders at the annual meeting a full and correct statement of the accounts of the said Company, the receipts and expenditures of the past year, the number of the policies issued, the amount covered by policies in force, together with a general ab- stract of the estimated liabilities and assets of the Com- pany, a copy of which statement, under the hand of the Managing Director, and countersigned by the Secretary, should be transmitted to every shareholder and to the several branches of the Legislature of the then Province of Canada. 9. Shortly after the passing of the said Act, the said Company commenced business in the said City of Toronto, and the whole of the said shares, being in number 5,000, were duly taken up and subscribed for, and twenty per cent, thereof was actually paid thereon, or on a sufficient part thereof to comply with the provisions of the said Act, and entered upon their several duties, and in every way the said Company became and were entitled to carry PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 119 on the businesses which the said Act permitted them to enter into. 10. The said Company, in the course of their said busi- ness and under the powers granted to them by the said Act, received money on deposit from several persons for the purpose of investing the same and accumulating the interest thereon for the benefit of the said depositors, and also assured the lives of different persons, and thereby, iik many other different ways, became indebted to several dif- ferent persons. 11. The said Company was duly and lawfully carrying on business in the years 1858 and 1862 and subsequently. In the year 1858 the plaintiff deposited with the said Company the sum of $200, at interest at the rate of 7^ per cent, per annum, and in the year 1862 the plaintiff de- posited with the said Company the further sum of $905.- 63 at interest at the rate of 7| per cent, per annum. It was before and at the respective times of the said deposits agreed and understood by and between the said Company and the plaintiff that the said Company should pay the interest upon the said deposits to the plaintiff half-yearly, and that the plaintiff should be at any time entitled to withdraw his said deposits, upon giving to the said Com- pany one month's notice of his wish so to do. 12. The said Company duly paid the interest upon the said deposits up to the 28th day of November, 1867, but since such last mentioned date the said Company have neglected and refused, and still neglect and refuse to pay any interest upon the said deposits. Since the year 1867 the plaintiff gave the said Company due and sufficient no- tice that he wished to withdraw from the said Company the amount of his said deposits, and he ha§ on several dif- ferent occasions demanded from the said Company the amount of his said deposits, but the said Company have neglected and refused, and still neglect and refuse to pay the amount of the said deposits or any part thereof. 13. In or about the month of January, 1872, the plain- tiff commenced an action against the said Company in Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench for Ontario, to re- cover the amount of the said deposits and interest, and in or about the month of April, 1872, the plaintiff recovered a judgment against the said Company for the sum of $1449.79 damages and costs, and on or about the I9th day of April, 1872, the plaintiff caused a writ of fieri fadas to be issued out of the said Court on his said judg- ment against the goods and chattels of the said Company, directed to the Sheriff of the County of York, being the 120 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF County in which the said Company always had their place of business, and on or about the said 19th day of April, 1872, the said writ was duly placed in the hands of the said Sheriif, endorsed to levy the amount of the said judgment debt and cost of writs, &c., but the said Sheriff subsequently returned the said writ nulla bona. 14. The plaintiff has been unable to recover anything from the said Company, on account of his said judgment, a.nd the said Company is now indebted to the plaintiff in the full amount of the said judgment, together with sub- sequent interest and costs, and the said Company have no available assets out of which the plaintiff can recover the amount of his said debt and interest or any part thereof, and it is absolutely necessary that the plaintiff should apply to this Honourable Court in order to obtain payment of the amount due to him. 15. Shortly after the payment of the last instalment of interest to the plaintiff, or about the time the same was paid, the said Company ceased to carry on business, and were only in operation for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the said Company, and since the year 1867 the said Company have done no new business, but have been in course of liquidation. 16. On or about the 1st day of June, 1868, the Direc- tors of the said Company held their annual meeting pur- suant to the said Act, and the said Directors, pursuant to the said Act, caused a report to be prepared of the affairs •of the said Compan}"-, and the same was signed by the de- ' fendants, H. R., and D. T., and by one J. B., and was printed and distributed amongst the stockholders of the said Company, but for particulars of the said report the plaintiff craves leave to refer this Honourable Court to the same when it shall be produced. 17. It appears upon the face of the said report, and the facts are that the said Company had, previous to such meeting, appointed certain of the Directors of the said Company a committee for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the said Company, and that the said committee had, previous to the said meeting, been winding up the affairs of the said Company, and had received certain of the assets of the said Company and paid and applied the same in liquidation and satisfaction of certain policies of assurance which had been effected with the said Company. 18. A statement of the assets and liabilities of the said Company was also prepared and laid before the said meet- ing, and from such statement it appears, and the facts are that the debts and liabilities of the said Company were PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 121 $4,714.97 in excess of the assets of the said Company, and that the said Company was hopelessly insolvent and un- able to pay their debts in full out of their assets. 19. Previous to the said meeting the said Directors had duly made calls upon the stock of the said Company, and had duly notified the stockholders, and amongst others the defendants, of such calls and had demanded from such stockholders, and amongst others from the defendants, the amounts of such calls. 20. At such meeting the said Committee were directed to continue to wind up the affairs of the said Company, and the said Directors were authorized to sue the stock- holders in arrear for the amounts of their unpaid calls. 21. At such meeting the defendants B. W. S., D. M., and J. T., were duly elected three of the Directors of the said Company in the place of the three Directors who had retired. 22. The defendants, J. H. C, H. R, T. W., B.W. S., H. R, J. S. D., J.T., D. M., together with W. S., E. B,, G. S. B., and J. B., were the last duly elected and appointed Direc- tors of the said Company, and no other person or persons since the aaid first day of June, 1868, has or have been elected or appointed a Director or Directors of the said Company. -3. There has been no annual meeting of the said Com- pany since the one held on the first day of June, 1868, and no report or statement of the accounts or position of the said Company has been prepared or furnished since the said Report presented on the first day of June 1868, but the said Directors have neglected and still neglect to carry on the affairs of the said Company, or to wind up the same, or to furnish or make up any statement of the affairs or position of the same. 24. The said E. B., and G. S- B., are now dead, but no Directors have been elected in their places, and the said W. S., has left the Province of Ontario and is now per- manently residing in the Pro\'ince of New Zealand, out of the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and the said J. B. has also left the Province of Ontario and is now permanently residing in the State of Kansas, one of the United States of America, out of the jurisdiction of this Court, but the other Directors sufficiently represent the Directors of the said Company, and the said J. B., and W. S., have not nor has either of them any rights or in- terests separate from those of the other Directors. 25. The said Company have now no office or place of business, and have no Secretary, and have had none for some years past, and the books, papers, and assets of the 122 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF said Company are in the possession or under the control of the said defendant, H. R. 26. The stock of the said Company was taken up and subscribed to by a very great number of persons, and the stock of the said Company is now held by a very great number of persons, several of them holders of from one to five shares, and the holders of the said stock are too numerous to be made parties to this cause, and it would be almost impossible for the plaintiff to proceed with this cause, and the expense attending the same would be very large were he compelled to make all the shareholders of the said Company parties to this suit. 27. The defendants, J. H. C, H. R., and D. T., are res- pectively President, Vice-President and Managing Director of the said Company and stockholders thereof to a large amount, and the defendants, T. W., B. W. S., H. R, J. S. D., J. T., and D- M., are Directors of the said Company ana stockholders thereof to a large amount, and the de- fendants C. E. C, A. A. E., R. J. 0., and S. J. B., are stockholders of the said Company, to the extent of twenty- seven shares, and sufficiently represent for the purposes of this suit the other stockholders of the said Company. 28. The said defendants, other than the defendants, the Company, sufficiently represent and protect the rights and interests of the stockholders of the said Company, who are not parties to this suit, and the stockholders who are not.parties to this suit have no separate rights or interests other than those of the said defendants, and wiU not suf- fer any loss or injury by not being made parties de- fendants. 29. Besides the plaintiff, there are several other credi- tors of the said Company whose claims are unpaid, buD the plaintiff sufficiently represents their rights and inter- ests for the purposes of this suit, and they wiU not, nor will the defendants be prejudiced by their not being made parties hereto, and the said other creditors have no sepa- rate interests from the plaintiff. 30. The defendants (other than the Company) and the other stockholders of the said Company have not paid up the full amount of the calls made by the Directors of the said Company, and have not paid up the fuU amount of their stock, and the' said defendants (other than the Com- pany) and the other stockholders of the said Company are now indebted to the said Company in large sums of money on account and in respect of the stock of the said Company held by them, and they neglect and refuse to pay the same. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 123 31. The defendants (other than the defendants, the Company and the defendants C. E. C, R J. 0., and S. J. B.,) are collecting the assets of the said Company, and they threaten and will continue to collect the assets of the said Company, unless restrained by the order and in- junction of this Honourable Court. 32. In order to realize the amount due to the plaintiff from the various stockholders of the said Company, it would be necessary to bring a great number of separate actions at law, and the plaintiff would be put to great loss of time, trouble and expense, whereas the amount due to the plaintiff and the other creditors of the said Company can be realized in this suit with less expense and in less time. 33. The plaintiff does not know the state or condition of the affairs of the said Company, and does not know all the stockholders of the said Company, nor the amounts due and owing by them respectively, and it is necessary, in order for the plaintiff to obtain full and adequate relief, that a discovery should be made by the defendants of the affairs and position of the said Company and of the names of the stockholders thereof, and of the amounts due from them respectively, and the plaintiff could not, without such discovery, safely proceed at law. (a). 34. The plaintiff submits that he is entitled to have the affairs of the said Company wound up under the direc- tion of this Honourable Court, that he is entitled to have an account taken of the amounts due by the several stock- holders of the said Company upon their respective shares of the stock of the said Company, that the several stock- holders who have not paid the calls pursuant to the de- mand made by the Directors of the said Company, are liable in addition to amount of their calls for the pay- ment of the sum of ten shillings upon each share held by them respectively, and that he is entitled to the relief sought by him by this Bill without making all the stock- holders or Directors parties to this Bill, and that the rights and interests of such stockholders or Directors will be sufficiently protected by being made parties (if necessary) in the Master's office. 35. The plaintiff also submits that he is entitled to have a Receiver appointed to collect and get in the out- standing assets of the said Company and the balance due upon calls already made, and that he is also entitled to an injunction restraining the defendants, the Directors, from collecting any further money on account of the said (a) But see now Administration of Justice Act 1873, a. 24. 124 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF Company, and from further intermeddling with the affairs of the said Company. 36. The plaintiff also submits that if the amounts un- paid upon the said stock are insufficient to pay the debts and liabilities of the said Company and the costs of this suit, the stockholders are personally liable for the de- ficiency. 37. The plaintiff also submits that he should be de- clared entitled to be paid his costs, charges and expenses of this suit between Solicitor and Client. 38. The plaintiff therefore prays : — 1. That the said Company may be ordered to pay to the plaintiff the amount of his said judg- ment debt, and the interest and the costs of this suit, and in default thereof, that the affairs of the said Company may be wound up and adminis- tered under the direction of this Honourable Court. 2. That an account may be taken of the out- standing assets and liabilities of the said Com- pany, and an account taken of what disposition has been madeof the assets, property and moneys of the said Company by the Directors of the said Company. 3. That an enquiry may be made as to who are the stockholders of the said Company, and, who were such stockholders at the time the said Company became insolvent, or ceased to carry on business, and when to whom such last men- tioned stockholders assigned their stocks, and whether such last mentioned stockholders are still liable in respect of such stock. 4. That the stockholders of the said Company may be made parties hereto in the Master's office, and their respective rights and liabilities ascertained. 5. That an account and enquiry may be taken and made of what is due from the several stock- holders of the said Company, and to what extent and in what proportion the said stockholders are liable for the debts and liabilities of the said Company. 6. That the stockholders of the said Company may be ordered to pay to the plaintiff and the other creditors of the said Company the amounts • found due to the plaintiff and the other creditors of the said Company. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCEEY — ^BILLS. 125 7. That a Receiver may be appointed to col- lect and get in the outstanding assets and pro- perty of the said Company, and to collect and get in the amounts due from the several stock- holders upon the calls heretofore made by the Directors of the said Company, including the sum of ten shillings chargeable as aforesaid in respect of each share held by such stockholders, and that the said defendants, the Directors, may be restrained bj' the order and injunction of this Honourable Court from collecting, selling, or in any way intermeddling with the property, assets and liabilities of or due to the said Company. 8. That the plaintiff may be paid his costs, charges and expenses of this suit between Solici- tor and Client. 9. For the purposes aforesaid, that aU proper directions may be given and accounts taken, and that the plaintiff may have such further and other relief as may seem meet. And the plaintiff will ever pray, &c. 16. Bill against shareholders of Joint Stock Company, 76- hy creditor of the Company for payment of debt. staSSrs of Joiut Stock Company by creditors of the and J. N Pkintiffs, ^^lU^ In Chancery Between- -N. D., J and . I. D., TheO. W. , P, G. A., J. L., debt. Company of Toronto, J. McM., and J. D., Defendants. City of Toronto. To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of N. D., J. I, D., and J. N., of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, and Province of Ontario, Iron Founders, who sue as well on their own behalf as on behalf of all the creditors of the defendants, the O. W. P. Company of Toronto, humbly complaining, Sheweth as follows : 1. The defendants, the O. W. P. Company of Toronto, are a body corporate within the Province of Ontario, in- corporated by virtue of Letters Patent issued under the Great Seal of the Province of Ontario, in pursuance of certain statutes in that behalf in force in the said Pro- vince. 2. The plaintiffs, on the 8th day of January, 1872, re- coYered a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas in 126 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF Ontario against the defendants, the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, for $4<,984 58 damages and $64 22 costs. 3. On the same day the plaintiflFs sued out upon the said judgment a writ oi. fieri facias against the goods and chattels of the said defendants, the O. W. P. Company of Toronto, directed to the Sheriff of the County of York, and on the same day delivered the same to the said Sheriff to be executed. 4. The said Sheriff under the said writ seized and took in execution and sold all the goods and chattels of the said defendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, which could he seized and taken in execution, and made upon the said execution the sum of $1,400 ; but there still is due to the plaintiffs on account of the said judgment the balance of the said judgment debt, interest and costs. 5. There are also divers other creditors of the said de- fendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, whose claims are unsatisfied. 6. There is no other fund, and there are no assets of the defendants, the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, available for payment of the debt of the plaintiffs, except the sums due upon the stock hereinafter mentioned. 7. The defendants, other than the defendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, are the Directors of the said Com- pany, and are the holders of 1,310 shares in the stock thereof, but in what shares and proportions the plaintiffs are unable to set forth. 8. No more than 1,310 shares of the stock of the Com- pany were subscribed or taken up. 9. The amount of the stock of the said Company held by the said defendants, other than the defendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, is $131,000, upon which the said de- fendants, other than the Company, have paid the sum of $8,000 and no more, and a balance of $123,000 is still due from the said defendants, other than the defendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, to the said last-named de- fendants, in certain proportions which the plaintiffs are unable accurately to set forth. 10. The defendants, other than the O. W. P. Company of Toronto, have in their possession aU the stock books and other papers of the defendants the O. W. P. Company of Toronto, and refuse to aUow the plaintiffs to inspect the same or to furnish any information respecting the amount of stock held by the said several defendants, other than the 0. "W". P. Company of Toronto. 11. The said defendants the 0. W. P. Company of Toroiito have ceased their operations, and do not intend to commence the same again. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 127 12. The plaintiffs applied to the defendants, other than the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, to make payment of the balance of the said judgment, and for that purpose to compel payment of the balance of the amounts due from the defendants, other than the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, to the said defendants the 0. W. P. Com- pany of Toronto, upon the said stock subscribed by them respectively, but the said defendants, other than the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, refuse -so to do. 13. By the terms of the cliarter of the said Company and of the said statutes, it is provided that in the event of the property or assets of the said Company becoming insuffi- cient to liquidate the liabilities or engagements thereof, the shareholders of its stock shall be individually liable for the deficiency, and shall contribute thereto ratably, but to no greater extent than to an amount equal to that not paid up on the said stock held by them respectively. 14. The plaintiffs are unable in Courts of Law to re- cover their debt, and their only remedy is in this Honour- able Court, as well to avoid circuity of action and a num- ber of actions as to ensure a ratable contribution from the said defendants the shareholders. The plaintiffs therefore pray as follows : — 1. That they may be paid the amount of their said debt, or, in default thereof, that the de- fendants, other than the 0. W. P. Company of Toronto, may be ordered to contribute in pro- portion to their several liability, and thereby to pay up, so far as may be required, 'the balance due upon the stock held bythem, and thatthe same may be applied in payment of the amount of the claim of the plaintiffs and the said other credi- tors. 2. That the plaintifis may have such further and other rehef as to this Honourable Court may seem meet. 3. That the plaintiffs may be paid their costs of suit. 4. That for the purposes aforesaid all proper directions be given and accounts taken. And the plaintiffs will ever pray. 128 FOKMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 77. 77. Bill hy Joint Stock Company to set aside secret sScompany fraudulent agreement entered into by Defendants with, s:,^etf^uduientP-o™o*«^ "^f ^^^ Company. a^eement en- tered into by Defendants with promoter of Company. In Chancery Between the C. 0. K. Company Limited, Plaintiff, and E. H. and H. F. H Defendants. To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Chancery. The Bill of Complaint of the C. 0. E,. Company Limited, humbly complaining, sheweth as follows : 1. Previously to and in the year 1869 the defendants were carrying on a small business in copartnership as manufacturers of lubricating oil and grease at St. Catha- rines, Ontario, under the style or firm of " H. and H.," and the defendant H. F. H. claimed to have discovered certain processes much less expensive than those com- monly in use whereby the crude oil of Canada might be manufactured into carbon or burning oils free from offen- sive smells, and superior in all respects to the carbon and oils produced from the crude oil of the United States, and he also claimed to have discovered a process whereby the residuum or tar which remains after the crude oil has been refined for the purpose of extracting carbon oils there- from could be utilized for the manufacture of a lubiicat- ing oil having no equal either in Europe or America. The defendant E. H. was by virtue of the contract of co- partnership jointly interested with the defendant H. F. H. in aU the said processes. 2. In the year 1869 the defendants were desirous of forming a Company for the purpose as, they alleged, of raising additional capital to enable them to extend their business and they entered into negotiations with a Mr. T. H., of St. Clement's House, St. Clement's Lane, in the City of London, and after considerable correspondence the said T. H. undertook to form and organize such Company upon certain terms which were embodied in the following agreement : — " This agreement, made and entered into this 28th " day of March, A. d. 1870, between E. H. and H. H., " trading under the firm of H. and H., as manufac- " turers of lubricating oils and grease at St. Cath- " arine's, Ontario, Canada, of the one part, and T. H., " of Saint Clement 's House, Saint Clement's Lane, in " the City of London, of the other part, witnesseth : PKOCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 129^ Whereas the said H. and H. have applied, by letter " to the said T. H., to form a Company for the pur- " pose of purchasing their patents, processes and in- " ventions for and in the manufacture of lubricating ' oils and grease upon the following terms and con- ' ditions, to wit : The capital stock of the said Com- " pany to be <£100,000 or £150,000 sterling as the " said T. H. may deem expedient. The said Com- " pany to pay the said H. and H. from the said capi- "tal stock of said Company the sum of £12,000 ster- " ling in cash and the further sum of £38,000 sterling " in paid-up shares in said Compan}', the same to be " paid to said H. and H. upon their transfer to the " said Company for the said Company's sole use and " benefit of all their patents, processes and inventions " for the manufacture of carbon, parafine and lubii- " eating oils and grease. The said H. and H. hereby " agree upon such payment as above specifiedto assign " and transfer and sell to the said Company all their " patents, processes and inventions for the manufac- " ture of the oils and grease aforesaid for their the " said Company's sole use and benefit. And the said " H. and H. give to the said T. H. full power and " authority to form such Company as aforesaid upon " the terms and conditions above named, and to do all " that may be necessary in their name for the perfect- " ing and establishing such Company. And they do " further agree to execute any documents, agreements " or deed which may be necessary for the purpose of " carrying out this agreement or any of the details "thereof The said H. and-H. further agree to pay " to the said T. H. for his services and expenditure " the sum of £5,000 sterling cash and further sum of " £10,000 sterling in paid-up shares in the said Com- " pany. The £5,000 sterling to be so paid to said " T. H., to be taken from the cash bonus of £1 2,000 " sterling paid by the said Company to said H. and "H. The £10,000 sterling in paid-up shares of the " said Company to be so paid to the said T. H., to be " taken from the ,£38,000 sterling of paid-up shares " paid to the said H. and H. by the said Company "for the bonus in the sale to the said Company " of their patents, processes and inventions. But in " case the said T. H. shall fail in his undertaking, and " shall not form such Company upon the terms and in " manner hereinbefore mentioned, and within the " time hereinafter specified, then and in that case the 9 130 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF " said H. and H. shall not pay the said T. H. any- " thing for his services and expenditure. The said " T. H. upon his part hereby agrees to organize and " form such Company upon the terms and conditions " herein mentioned, and he the said T. H. further " agrees to pay all the expenses thereby incurred and " do all that is necessary to be done in bringing the " enterprise promptly before the public, and use his '■ utmost endeavours to bring the negotiations to a " speedy issue. The said T. H. further agrees that " the said H. and H. are to incur no liability of any " kind or nature in the formation of the said Com- " pany except in the payment of the said T. H. of " said bonus as hereinbefore specified. And it is fur- " ther agreed by the said H. and H. and by the said " T. H. that this contract shall remain in full force " and effect until the first of April A. P. 1871, and no " longer." 3. The said agreement was duly signed and sealed by the defendants on their own behalf and by one J. J. H., a son of the said T. H., on behalf of the said T. H. 4. In pursuance of the said agreement the' said T. H. induced several persons of standing and respectability to undertake to become directors of the Company so to be formed by him, andearlj^in the year 1871 a prospectus of the proposed Company, with a capital of £150,000, in 30,000 shares of £5 each fully paid up, of which 13,000 only were to be offered to the public at par, was prepared and issued by the said T. H. and the defendant H. F. H. The names of the directors as set forth in the prospectus were as follows : — Colonel J. A. C, late Governor of New Brunswick. C. J. F., Esquire (Messieurs F. Brothers), Great Saint Helens, E.G. T. H., Esquire, Saint Clement's House, Clement's Lane E.G. F. L., Esquire, Bournemouth, and Athenaeum Glub, Pall Mall. W. T., Esquire, 106 Upper Thames Street, E.G., Direc- tor of the Great Laxey Mining Company. 5. The prospectus, after setting forth the valuable character of the improvements purported to have been effected by the processes of the defendants in the manu- facture of carbon and lubricating oils, proceeded as fol- lows : — " Messrs. H. and H., requiring additional capital to "erect the necessary works and machinery and pur- , PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 131 " chase the surplus stock of crude oil to enable them " to meet the rapidly increasing demand for their " lubricating and other oils, have agreed to assign to " this Company all their plant, patents, processes and "inventions for the manufacture of Canadian and " other oils for the sum of £50,000, of which amount " they have stipulated to retain an interest in the " Company in paid-up shares to the extent of £38,000 " and to continue in the management of the works, '' receiving in cash the sum of £12,000 only. " As the Company intend to continue the purchase " of crude oil and residuum, and not to become in- " terested in oil wells or land, it will be manifest that " this is not in any respect a speculation, but the mere " extension of a certainand highly profitable business." The prospectus further states (among other things) that — " The Royal Mail Line of steamers, the Ottawa "Steamboat Company, the Quebec and the Allan " Line of steamers have offered to take the straw- " coloured oils (being some of the oils alleged to be " manufactured by the defend ants) for all their vessels, " and other orders from Railway and Steamboat Com- " panics have been declined from the mere inability " at present to manufacture to the extent required." And further: — " The manufacture of the black oil under a separate " patent, for which there is an enormous demand for " railways in America, will be continued under the " superintendence of Messrs H. and H. from the re- " siduum, while the new works are being erected for " the distillation of crude oil.'' 6. On the faith of the statements contained in the said prospectus, which is to be treated as if herein set forth at length, shares were applied for by the general public, and on or about the 23rd February, 1871, the Plaintiff Company was duly registered and incorporated under the Companies' Acts 1862 and 1867, having its registered ofBce in England. The objects for which the Company was established, as defined in its Memorandum of Associa- tion, were to purchase the patents processes and inventions or other rights of the defendant H. F. H. for improvements in continuous distilling apparatus for distilling petroleum and other kinds of oil to work such patents, processes and inventions and to carry on business therein, to take out or purchase patents, to grant licences to work patents in the United Kingdom and colonies and in other countries. 132 FORMS AND PB.ECKUENTS OF to employ machinery, to purchase or lease or otherwise acquire and hold land and premises, to purchase or lease or otherwise acquire machinery ; to purchase or hire or construct vessels, roads, railways, wharves, landing-stages and other adjuncts for shipping; to purchase the business of any other Company carrying on business similar to that of the Plaintiff Company, to buy and sell produce and materials ; to sell or lease the Company's patent rights, business, land and premises, or a part or portion thereof; to employ agents and labour, and to do all such other things as are incident or conducive to the attainment of the above objects. 7. The said agreement of the 28th March, 1870, was not noticed or referred to in the said prospectus, pursuant to the provisions of the Companies' Act, 1867, and was in fact concealed from the applicants for shares in the Plain- tiff Company and from the public generally. 8. The said prospectus sets out certain letters addressed to the defendants in the nature of testimonials, to which credit was given by the applicants for shares, but at least one of such letters, viz. that dated 1st June, 1870, and signed " E. E.," was obtained by collusion with the writer thereof, with a view of inducing the belief that the busi- ness of the defendants was much more extensive than in fact it was and that they had a very considerable market for their oils. The said E. E., who by the said letter purports to give an order to the defendants for a supply of oil at the rate of 500 barrels a week, was never in a position to enter upon any such transaction, and was in fact one of the persons subsequently employed by the defendant H. F. H. to assist in constructing a wharf on the Plaintiff Company's land at Samia, in the Dominion of Canada. 9. Notwithstanding the statements contained in the said prospectus as to the manufacture by the defendants of carbon oils from crude oil, and the reference to samples therein made, such oils were never in fact manufactured by them in the ordinary course of their business or in any large quantity, and the Plaintiff Company charges that the samples, if made by them at all, were merely made by way of experiment only and with the view of entrapping the public into the belief that they were samples of a commodity which the defendants had for some time been regularly producing for sale in the market. The Plaintiff Company do not believe that such offers as in the said prospectus are alleged to have been made by the said Railway and Steamboat Companies had in fact been made PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 133 b}'^ such Companies to anything like the extent which the said prospectus implies. 10. At the time of the formation of the Plaintiff Com- pany no apparatus requisite for the manufacture of carbon oils according to the said patent existed upon the defen- dants' premises at St. Catharines aforesaid, as is shown by the fact that the inventory of the plant used by the de- fendants for the purposes of their business makes no men- tion of any tank, stills, metal tanks, coils of steam piping or other apparatus corresponding to the apparatus describ- ed in the specification filed in the Patent Office. The statements in the said prospectus that there was a rapidly increasing demand for the defendants' oils ; and that the defendants' business was a certain and highly profitable business, were also wholly untrue and designed to mislead, the fact being that the defendants' business was, as the Plaintiff Company has since ascertained, of a very meagre and limited description. 11. The number of shares which have been apphedfor on the faith of the said prospectus on the 24th March, 1871, when the first allotments took place, was 3,376, re- presenting a nominal capital of £16,880, and all these were allotted. Fresh shares have since from time to time been issued, and the total amount subscribed for has now reached the sum of £29,000, the greater part of which has been fully paid up. 12. On the 12th of September, 1870, letters patent for " Improvements in Continuous Distilling Apparatus for " DistUIing Petroleum and other Kinds of Oils, and in the " Apparatus for performing the same," were granted by Her Majesty to the said T. H. as a " communication " from the defendant H. F. H., and on the 6th of April, 1871, the Plaintiff Company entered into an agreement with the defendants for the purchase from them of (amongst other things) the patent so granted. Such agreement was duly signed by the defendant H. F. H. on behalf of himself and the defendant E. H., and was duly sealed with the com- mon seal of the Plaintiff Company, and was in the words and figures following : — " An agreement made and entered into this 6th " day of April, 1871, between E. H. and H. F. H., of " St. Catharines, Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, " copartners and manufacturers of oils and grease, " hereinafter called the vendors, of the one part, and ■' the C. 0. R. Company Limited, of the other part. ■-' Whereas the said H. F. H. is the legal owner or " patentee of divers inventions for improvements in 134 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF " the manufacture and distillation of petroleum and " other oils and grease, which or most of which have " been patented in the Dominion of Canada in his " name, and of patents which or most of which have " been or are about to be applied for and taken out " in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Austria, Hun- " gary, Bavaria, Sweden, Italy, India, Cuba, Barba- " does, Brazil, Trinidad, New South Wales and other " countries. And whereas the said Company has been " recently formed under the Joint Stock Companies' " Acts 1862 and 1867, for the purpose amongst other " things of purchasing the said inventions, patents " and patent rights, and working the same, and such " purchase has been agreed on, on the terms and in " manner herein appearing. Now it is hereby agreed " by and between the said vendors and the said Com- " pany as follows (that is to say) : — " 1. The vendors sell to the Company and the '•■ Company purchase, as from the 25th day of Feb- "rwary, 1871, aU inventions, improvements pro- " cesses, whether the subjects or capable of becom- " ing the subjects of a patent or not, patents and " patent rights and privileges whether in Canada, " Great Britain or elsewhere, of or belonging to or " obtainable by the vendors or either of them, or " in which they or either of them have or has any "right or interest whatever (including certain " patents granted to the said H. F. H. in the Do- " minion of Canada, dated the 5th day of May, " 1870, and numbered 397, and their right or in- ■' terest in a certain patent taken out in and for " Great Britain by Mr. T. H., as a communication ■' from the said H. F. H., dated the 12th day of " September, 1870, and numbered 2,458, and such " special privileges as are granted in countries " where no patents are obtainable), for or relating " to the distillation or manufacture of petroleum " or other oils or grease or any like products, and " all future inventions, improvements, processes " (whether the subjects or capable of becoming the " subjects of a patent or not), patents and patent " rights and privileges which may be invented or " discovered by or belong to or be obtainable by " the vendors or either of them, including such "special privileges as are granted in countries " where no patents are obtainable. The vendors PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. ISK " also sell to the Company all their right or the " right of either of them to apply or obtain exten- " sions or renewals of any of the patents and patent " rights the subjects of the purchase, and also all " their plant, stock-in-trade, tools, utensils and chat- " tels in or about their works in Canada, or used " in their business on the 25th day of February, "1871. " 2. The vendors hereby agree and declare that " those of the said patents which have already been " obtained by them or either of them are good, " valid and effectual in law for the purposes there- " in expressed ; and thafaU conditions in the same- " contained have been duly performed and complied " with ; and that the said vendors now have in " themselves good right and absolute authority to " sell and to assign the same and all other the sub- "jectsof the purchase to the Company; and that " the said subjects of the purchase shall henceforth " be used, exercised and enjoyed by the Company " without any interruption, claim or demand by or " from the said vendors or either of them, their or " his heirs, executors or administrators and assigns " or any other person or persons ; and the said ven- " dors hereby undertake to indemnify the Company " therefrom. " 3. The vendors and each of them will execute- " and do all such assurances and things at the cost " of the Company for transferring, assigning, mak- "ing over aod assuring to the Company and piit- " ting the Company in full possession of and secur- " ing the Company's right to, and use of, the pre- " sent and future subjects of the purchase and the " full benefit and advantage thereof, as may be "reasonably required; such assurances to contain " all proper and reasonable covenants on the part " of the vendors. The said H. F. H. will forthwith ■ write out and verify by a statutory declaration a "full statement and description of the working of " the patents, jirocesses, inventions and manufac- "tures, the subjects of the purchase; such state- " ments to be so full and clear as will enable a prac- " tical workman to use the processes and carry on " the manufactures and make the articles, the sub- "jects of the purchase, without oral, practical or " experimental instruction ; the same to be placed m " the Jhands of the Managing Director, sealed and 136 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF " SO retained until the completion of the purchase, " and then to become the property of the Company. " 4. For these purposes aforesaid or any of them, " the vendors and each of them will, at the request " and expense of the Company, permit their and his " name to be used by the Company in anj' instru- " ments, acts, applications and proceedings, legal or " equitable or otherwise, including actions, suits and " proceedings to prevent infringement, and proceed- " ings to obtain extension or renewal of patent " rights or obtain amounts and profits ; and the ven- " dors and each of them will at the request and " expense of the Company, to the best of their and " his power, support by all requisite evidence, draw- "ings, descriptions, specifications, declarations and " otherwise, any applications for patent rights or " privileges or renewals or extensions of the same ■' in any countrj', including special privileges grant- " ed in countries where patents are not obtainable " as aforesaid, in respect of any of the subjects of " the purchase, and will at the like expense con- " duct and make any experiments and conduct any " processes with the view of developing, support- " ing or improving any of the subjects of the pur- " chase." " 5. The consideration for the purchase is " twelve thousand pounds in cash, which is to be " paid by the Company to the vendors on the exe- "cution of the necessary assignments and assur- "ances for vesting the then existing property com- " prised in the purchase, in the Company and also " 7,fi00 fully paid-up shares of £b each in the Com- "pany which are to be allotted to the vendors "jointly or as they may in writing direct on the " execution of the said assignments and assurances," " 6. Mr. H. F H. has been appointed Manufac- " turing Manager of the Company's proposed works " in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere at a " salary of jl,200 sterling a year. He is (subject " to the proviso hereinafter contained) to continue "to be such manager at that salary for a period of " fifteen years from the date of his appointment, " the 25th day of February, 1871, if he shall so " long live, provided that after the expiration of " the first five years from the date of his said ap- " pointment the Company may dismiss and remove "him from the same with or -without notice, in PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 137 " which case his salary shall be apportioned. And " if \yith less than one 3'ear's notice, he shall be " entitled to one year's salary extra by way of " bonus. But subject hereto the said H .F. H. is, if " so required by the Company, to continue to be '' such manager for the said period of fifteen years " from the date of his said appointment. While " continuing to be such manager, he is to devote " his whole time and skill and attention to the " management, improvement and development of " the Company's manufacturing business in Cana- " da and the United States of America, and such " other place or places as the Company may select, " whether according to the process invented by him " or any other processes as the Company may de- " tei-mine from time to time, and to such other du- ■' ties as the Company may impose upon him as such " manager, and is not to carry on or be engaged in " or interested in any business ; but this provision " is not to prevent his holding shares in, though he " must not be a director or servant of any other " Company, and especially neither he nor the said " E. H. is to be in any way connected with any " person or Compan}- engaged in oil orgrease busi- " ness, or in any way competing in trade with the " Company. In case any dispute or difference shall " arise between the said vendors or either of them " and the Company, either with respect to any ques- " tion as to the due performance by the said H. F. " H. of his duties as such Manager of the Com- " pany as aforesaid, or any other matters whatso- " ever the same shall upon the request in writing " of either of the parties in difference be referred '' to the arbitrati(jn of two indifferent persons and to " be chosen by each party in difference within one " month after such request shall have been made " in England. And in case either of the parties in " difference shall neglect or refuse to nominate an " arbitrator, then the arbitrator named by the other " party shall nominate another arbitrator and the "two arbitrators shall, before proceeding in the " said reference, nominate another indifferent per- " son to be umpire. And the said arbitrators shall " make their award in writing within 30 days next " after such reference shall be made ; and in case " they shall not agree to and make their award " within the time last mentioned, then the said mat- 138 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF " ters in difference shall be referred to the said um- " pire who shall make his award in writing 30 days " next after the same shall have been so referred " to him ; and such arbitrators and umpire shall have " full power to examine the said parties and their " respective witnesses on oath and call for and re- " quire the production of all books, papers, deeds, " letters, vouchers, documents and writings, which " they or he shall think necessary, and shall have " all the powers and authorities given by the sta- "tutemade in that behalf; and the award of the " said two arbitrators or of the said umpire (as the ■" case may be) shall be final and conclusive between " the parties ; and to that end it is agreed that any " submission or reference to arbitration, under or by " virtue of these presents, shall and may from time " to time be made a rule of any of Her Majesty's " Superior Courts at Westminster, pursuant to the " statute in that case made and provided. " 7, Neither of the vendors is to communicate " to any person or Company, other than the Com- " pany and their aforesaid agents or. nominees, any " of the secret inventions, processes or methods, "the subjects of the purchase, which may belong " to or be used by the Company. " 8. Each of the vendors is forthwith, or as soon " as may be, to communicate, disclose and teach to " the Company, their aforesaid agents and nominees, " all secrets, inventions, processes and methods pre- " sent or future, the subjects of the purchase or re- " lating to the manufactures or distillation of oils " or grease. " 9. Each of the vendors will, at the request and " expense of the Company, take any journeys which " may reasonably be required for the purpose of " this agreement. " 10. This agreement may be made a rule of the " High Court of Chancery in England, on the ap- '' plication of either party." 13. It was stated in the said prospectus of the Plaintiff Company that the manufacture from residuum of black (or lubricating) oil under a separate patent would be con- tinued under the superintendence of the defendants while new works were being erected for the distillation of the crude oil. The separate patent thus referred to had not then been granted, and was not in fact granted until the 16th of March, 1872 ; but in the meantime the Directors PROCEEDINGS [N CHANCERY— BILLS. 139 of the Plaintiff Company determined to commence opera- tions by the manufacturing process intended to be pro- tected by that patent. With that view they ordered the construction of two sets of machinery requisite for such manufacture, intending that tlie same should be erected, the one at Sarnia, on the Canadian bank of the St. Clair river, and the other at Port Huron on the United States bank of the same river. A Mr. C. S. whose testimony as to the value of the said inventions and processes was part of the evidence on the faith of which the shares in the Plaintiff Company were subscribed for was appointed " General Superintendent " with a salary of ^£800 a year and the defendant H. F. H. was appointed " Manufactur- ing Manager " at a salary of ,£1,200 a year. 1-i. The said machinery was all constructed under the personal supervision of the defendant H. F. H. in order to secure its perfect accordance with his plans, and to adapt it to the purposes of his patent ; and in June, 1871, the same was despatched for Sarnia, and the greater part of it was disembarked there in the following month of September. 15. Shortly after the arrival of the said C. S, and the defendant H. F. H. at Sarnia, the said C. S. suggested to the Plaintiff Company through the said T. H. who was the Managing Director of the Company, that he should purchase a large quantity of residuum or tar which was then in the market and well adapted to the manufacture of lubricating oil, but the said T. H. wrote back that he was not to do so until the works should be ready for operation. 16. The completion of the said works did not, however, .depend upon the said T. H. but upon the defendant H. F. H. and much unnecessary delay took place in reference thereto, considerable time and money being wasted on the construction of a wharf which was said to be requisite, (although it was not so in fact) in order to have a con- venient landing place for the machinery upon its arrival. While the works were in progress, the defendant E. H. received very considerable sums for superintending them, whereas no such superintendence was required, or if re- quired, could have been given by the said C. S. or by a. Mr. M. who had been engaged by the Plaintiff Company at the request of the defendant, H. F. H. at a salary of £300 per annum, and was principally occupied during the construction of the works in keeping a tavern or bar saloon in Sarnia. 17. On the .3rd of July, 1872, the said C. S. by the di- 140 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF rections of the defendant, H. F. H. sent a telegram to the said T. H. as follows :— " Ready. Funds required for crude oil ;" meaning thereby that the works were completed and ready for immediate use, and that money was required for the purchase of the material on which to operate. In point of fact, however, at the date of such telegram the works were not completed, as the defendant H. F. H. well knew, nor was all the machinery necessary for the manufacture of oil then fixed. 18. The request of the said telegram for funds to pur- chase " crude oil " appeared unreasonable and unaccount- able to the then Directors of the"Plaintiff Company, as the defendant H. F. H. had undertaken with the machi- nery so sent out as aforesaid to manufacture oil from the tar only, and not from crude oil. This was pointed out to the defendant, II F. H. and with the view of explain- ing the same he wrote and sent a letter dated the 22nd of July, 1872, and which was delivered at the Company's offices on the 9th of August, 1872. Such letter, so far as material, was as follows :— " Colonel A. J. C, Chairman of the Board of Directors, C. 0. E. Company. " Dear Sir " I am again forced to call the attention of the " Board to the position of your executive in Canada. " On the 3rd July, the Superintendent telegraphed to " the Managing Director ' Eeady. Funds required for " ' crude oil ' this should have been ' Residuum ' but " my letter would set that matter right as I advised "the Board that on the 8th I would be prepared to " manufacture 100 barrels per day of the dark oils " for railway purposes and on that day I was ready. " Changes are constantly taking place in a country " like this, and many great changes have taken place "in the large refineries in London. They have " adopted what is termed the Boiler Still which is " SO feet long, and six feet in diameter, and they now " run about 65 per cent, of oil off, and use the resi- " duura for fuel by some patent process. At all events " this substance would not answer our purpose at all, " as by open fire distillation the heat necessary to " carry over the amount they now take off, chars the " residue, leaving it unfit for anything but fuel." 19. On the 20th of August, 1S72, the then Directors of the Plaintiff Company, feeling dissatisfied with the'con- duct of the defendant, H. F. H. and being desirous of test- ing the truth of the statement contained in his said letter PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 141 as to the residuum then obtainable, being unsuitable for the manufacture of lubricating oil hy his process, and so charred as to be unlit for anything but fuel, commissioned a Mr. B. C. to proceed to Canada to investigate and report upon the Plaintiff Company's affairs. The said B. C. ar- rived in Canada on the 7th of September, 1873, and, as the result of his investigations, discovered (as the fact' is) that the funds of the Plaintiff Company had been culpably wasted by the defendant H. F. H. and that residuum or tar could be had in any quantity of equal quality to that made at the time when the defendant, H. F. H. left Eng- land, and that a large part of 10,000 barrels of tar which the said C. S. by the advice of the defendant, H. F. H. proposed to purchase for the Plaintifi Company in June, 1871, was still on hand in tanks at Petrolia, and could be' purchased by the Plaintiff Company at the same price at which it was in that month proposed to be purchased by the said C. S. 20. The said B. C. further discovered (as the fact is) that if any alteration had taken place at all in the qualitv of the residuum resulting from the processes used in Ca- nada, it was an alteration for the better, and that such residuum was less charred than was formerly the case and more adapted for manufacture into oil than was the residuum left by the processes commonly in use during the time that the defendants carried on business at St. Catharines. And he further ascertained that there would be no difficulty in inducing the oil refiners of Canada so to modify their processes as to leave the residuum of a quality such as the defendant H. F. H. alleged that he required, inasmuch as they could then utilize and make saleable all the products of the raw material employed by them, instead of wasting the residuum or using it, if at all, only for fuel, as is the usual practice. 21. In ignorance of the said agreement of the 28th of March, 1870, and of the untruth of the aforesaid repre- sentations on the part of the defendants as to the value of their business and otherwise, the Plaintiff Company early in the month of May, 1871, paid the sum of £5,100 cash, part of the sum of £12,000 specified in the said agreement of the 6th of April, 1871, to the defendant H. F. H. on account of himself and the defendant E. H., and allotted to the said defendants, or to their nominees 1,800 fully paid-up shares in the Plaintiff Company, and of such shares, certificates of which were duly issued, 1,500 now stand in the joint names of the defendants in the register of the Plaintiff Company. On the 13th of the said month 142 FORMS AND PHECBDENTS OF of May, £2,125, being part of the said sum of £6,100 and certificates of 200 shares, being part of the said 1,§00 shares, were paid and given to the said T. H. in part pur- suance of the said agreement of the 28th of March, 1870. 22. Of the 200 shares so as aforesaid given to the said T. H., 50 were registered in his name and have been re- tained by him, but the remaining 150 were distributed by him amongst his co-directors in manner following (that is to say) : — 50 were given to the said Colonel J. A. C, 50 to the said C. J. F., and 50 to the said W. T., who died in September, 1871. The said Colonel C. and C. J. F. have since abandoned all claim to any beneficial in- terest in their said respective 50 shares in favour of the Plaintiff Company, but the executor of the said W. T. has not thought himself at liberty to take a similar step in respect of his testator's shares. Accordingly on the 14th February, 1872, the Plaintiff Company filed a Bill in this Honourable Court (a print of which is referred to) against the said T. H., and the executor of the said W. T., for the purpose (amongst other things) of recovering as well the said 50 shares retained by the said T. fl., and the 50 shares retained by the said executor of the said W. T., as the sum of f£2,125, part of the said sum of £5,100 so as aforesaid paid to the said T. H., on the ground that the same shares and cash respectively were improperly re- ceived and in fraud of the Plaintiff Company. Sufficient time has not elapsed since the institution of the said suit to enable it to be brought to a hearing. 23. The shareholders in the Plaintiff Company, other than the said T. H., were induced by the representations of the defendants or one of them, made in the said pros- pectus, to believe that the whole of the cash and shares which constituted the purchase-money for the said patents and processes was to be paid and delivered to the defen- dants for their absolute use ; and if such shareholders had known that any part of such purchase money was to be- long to the said T. H., the common seal of the Company would not have been affixed to the said agreement of the 8th of April, 1871. 24. Under the circumstances aforesaid, the Plaintiff Company charge that the said agreement of the 6th of April, 1871, was obtained by fraud and improper conceal- ment on the part of the defendants or one of them, and that the same ought to be set aside by this Honourable Court, and that any moneys or shares paid or delivered thereunder to the defendants or either of them ought to be restored by them, the Plaintiff Company being willing PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY — BILLS. 143 and hereby offering to do all such acts or things as this Court may think proper to direct foi- the purpose of re- storing to the defendants &\\y propertj', rights or interests of the defendants that maj' be vested in the Plaintiff- Company under the said agreement. "2.3. The machinery erected on the premises of the said Plaintiff Company at Sarnia cannot be made available for the can-ying out of the said processes of distillation except under the personal superintendence of the defendants or one of them, or with the aid of the instructions referred to in the 3rd clause of the said agreement of the 6th of April, 1871, which insti-uctions, as the defendants allege, are contained in a certain sealed packet deposited b}' them with the said T. H., as trustee for the Plaintiff' Company. Such packet still remains unopened in the ■ possession of the said T. H., and in pursuance of the said offer the Plaintiff Companj- are willing to give all neces- sarj- directions for the same being redelivered bj- the said T. H. to the defendants or either of them. ■2^i. The defendants threaten and intend to bring an action or commence some other proceeding against the Plaintiff Company in respect of the unpaid balance of the £12,000 cash and the said 7,600 shares of £5 each respec- tively mentioned in the said agreement of the 6th of April, 1871, and they ought to be restrained from so doing. '27. Both the defendants allege that they are entitled to certain moneys in respect of services rendered or dis- bursements made by them to or on behalf of the Plaintiff Company, and the defendant H. F. H., alleges that he is entitled to some salary as manufacturing manager, but the Plaintiff Company charge that no such moneys or salary are due, and that at all events none can be recovered until the claims of the Plaintiff Company upon the defendants in respect of the other matters herein mentioned shall have been ascertained and settled. The Plaintiff Company prays as follows : — 1. That it may Vie declared that the said agreement of the 6th of April, 1871.. was fraudu- lent and void as against the Plaintiff Company, and that the same may be set aside and de- livered up to be cancelled, and that the defend- ants may be ordered to repay to the Plaintiff Company the sum of £5,100 so paid to them as aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall not be re- covered from the said T. H. in the said suit instituted against him, with interest from the date of such payment. 144 FORMS AND PRECEDENTS OF 2. That the defendants may be ordered to re- deliver to the Plaintiff Company the certificates of the said 1,800 shares so handed to them as aforesaid, or so many of them as are now in their possession or control, and that the Plaintiff Com- pany may be at liberty to cancel the 1,500 shares now registered in the names of the defendants, and to remove their names from the Company's share register in respect of such shares. 3. That in the meantime the defendants may be restrained by the order and injunction of this Honourable Court from commencing or in- stituting any action or other proceeding for the purpose of obtaining payment of the unpaid bal- ance of the said £12,000 cash, or an allotment to them of any part of the residue of the said 7,600 shares, or of enforcing any claim against the Plain- tiff Company in respect of services, disburse- ments or otherwise. 4. That the defendants may pay the costs of this suit. 5. That the Plaintiff Company may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require. 78. 78. Bill to set aside deed obtained by undue inAuence dcedobtoiiiedby