Brahan & Atwood v. Ragland
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was a Chancery proceeding, in which five several Mis were filed in Madison Circuit Court, by John Brahan and William Atwood, for the purpose of obtaining relief against a judgment which had been obtained against them at law in said Court by N. Ragland, at September term, 1821, for the sum of @1837 34, which was affirmed in the Supreme Court with @183 damages, with costs; and which was sought to be enforced against them for the use and benefit of Simon Turner, as was…
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This was a Chancery proceeding, in which five several Mis were filed in Madison Circuit Court, by John Brahan and William Atwood, for the purpose of obtaining relief against a judgment which had been obtained against them at law in said Court by N. Ragland, at September term, 1821, for the sum of @1837 34, which was affirmed in the Supreme Court with @183 damages, with costs; and which was sought to be enforced against them for the use and benefit of Simon Turner, as was shewn by an indorsement of Ragland’s attorney, made on the execution, dated the 28th June, 1825. This judgment had been…
1Opinion of the Court
By JUDGE COLLIER.
The appellants who had before been, and perhaps were at this time co-partners in trade, exhibited at different periods during the years 1823, ’25, and 26, five bills on the equity side of the Circuit Court of Madison, all proposing to enjoin perpetually the collection of a judgment recovered by the appellee, Ragland, against them as first indorsers of a note of one Henry C. Bradford, upon the allegations that the noté was indorsed for the accommodation of Bradford, and in violation of their mercantile association; that at the time the indorsement was made, the note was not…
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