Dorman v. Jacksonville & Alligator Plank-Road Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit for Duval County. This was an action of assumpsit instituted by the appellee against the appellant, to recover an amount subscribed to the Capital Stock of said Company. The declaration contains twelve counts. The first six counts were over-ruled on demurrer and stricken out.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit for Duval County. This was an action of assumpsit instituted by the appellee against the appellant, to recover an amount subscribed to the Capital Stock of said Company. The declaration contains twelve counts. The first six counts were over-ruled on demurrer and stricken out. The seventh count alleges “that on the first day of March, 1851, the plaintiffs were a body corporate, duly chartered by the Legislature of the State of Florida, and being such body corporate a book of subscription to the Capital Stock of said Company was afterwards,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaltzell, C. J.
This is a suit instituted to recover instalments for stock alleged to be due to this Company.
Defendant demurred to the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th counts of the plaintiffs’ declaration, but the Court adjudged them sufficient, and this ruling presents the first question for the consideration of the Court.
*279The seventh count objected to, is a specimen of the others, and its disposition will avoid the necessity of treating each of them separately. It alleges “that on the 1st of March, 1851, the plaintiffs were a body corporate, duly chartered by the Legislature of the State, and being such…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barbee v. Jacksonville & Alligator Plank Road Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1855
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