An Argument on Behalf of the Defendants, in the Case of Isaac Shelby, a Citizen of Kentucky, Versus John Bacon, Alexander Symington, Thomas Robins, James Robertson, Richard H. Bayard, James S. Newbold, Herman Cope, and Thomas S. Taylor

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Excerpt from An Argument on Behalf of the Defendants, in the Case of Isaac Shelby, a Citizen of Kentucky, Versus John Bacon, Alexander Symington, Thomas Robins, James Robertson, Richard H. Bayard, James S. Newbold, Herman Cope, and Thomas S. Taylor: Supreme Court of the United States, December 1850How much of the assets was good, cannot be told, the fact that a very large proportion' of them were valueless, only increased 'the difficulty of executing the trust. Their local condition is worthy of remark. Thirty-eight closely printed pages of the record were required to tell where but a part of them might be found. They were literally scattered over the 'world.' They consisted of all descriptions of real estate, of mortgages, bonds, judgments, no'tes, bills and stocks, in short, of almost everything entitled to the name of property, real or personal. Taken, as much as it had been, to secure the payment of doubtful debts, the condition of the titles to it may be the subject of conjecture more easily than 'of description.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.