See  2  Chitty's  General  Practice,  ch.  5,  §  3,  p.  342,  343,  344.
'  Mohawk  and  Hudson  Eailroad  Company  v.  Clute,  4  Paige,  K.  384 ;  Thomp-
son V.  Ebbets,  Hopkins,  B,.  272.  This  same  doctrine  would  apply  to  a  case,
where  a  person  was  taxed  in  two  towns  for  the  same  property,  and  did  not
know  to  which  town  tax  should  properly  belong ;  and  asked  by  his  bill  to  have
the  amount  of  tax  with  which  he  was  chargeable,  as  well  as  the  persons  to  whom
it  was  payable,  ascertained.    Ibid. ;  Ante,  §  813  a.
3  Parks  V.  Jackson,  11  Wendell,  443.
3  See  Goodrick  v.  Shotbolt,  Prec.  Ch.  333,  334,  335,  336  ;  Bedell  v.  Hoffman,
2  Paige,  Rep.  199  ;  Mitchell  v.  Hayne,  2  Sim.  &  Stu.  63 ;  1  Madd.  Ch.  Pr.  146,
147  ;  S.  P.  Gilb.  Eq.  Rep.  18.
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