U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts October 15, 1845 (In re Babcock)

WOODBURY, Circuit Justice.

On the examination of the report of the commissioner, the conclusions formed by him from the facts proved, do not strike me as entirely just. It is conceded that Babcock was interested to the extent of one tenth with others in certain lands, about which a legal controversy arose with third persons. After it had continued some time in charge of Mr. Loring and Mr.