Moore v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court at Talladega. This was a bill in Chancery, filed by David Hubbard against the plaintiffs in error.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court at Talladega. This was a bill in Chancery, filed by David Hubbard against the plaintiffs in error. The bill charges that some time in the year 1839, the complainant, together with one M. Gilchrist* M. Tarver, G. K. Hubbard and J. Sutherland, as one party, formed a co-partnership and association with William Moore and Jesse Duren for the purpose of purchasing Indian reservations of the lands ceded to the United States by the Creek tribe of Indians, with a view to make a profit by the re-sale of the lands thus purchased. That an article of agreement was executed…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
The object of this bill is to have an account of the transactions of a partnership for the purchase and sale of Indian reservations in the Creek Nation, formed between the complainant and certain persons styled his associates of the first part, W. H. Moore of the second and Jesse Duren of the third pai;t, the terms of which partnership were reduced to writing. The money for the purchase of the lands was to be furnished by the complainant and his associates, and Moore, the land to be purchased by Duren, and the profits which might arise from a re-sale, after refunding the money advanced, to be…
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