Legal Opinion

Steiner v. Peters Store Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 1, 1898PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Escambia Chancery Court. Tried before Hon. Jere N. Williams. This canse was submitted in the court below on an agreed statement of facts, wbicb are fully shown in the opinion. It was agreed that the pleadings be amended so as to present the one question mentioned in the opinion.

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Appeal from Escambia Chancery Court. Tried before Hon. Jere N. Williams. This canse was submitted in the court below on an agreed statement of facts, wbicb are fully shown in the opinion. It was agreed that the pleadings be amended so as to present the one question mentioned in the opinion. The record contains merely the agreed statement of facts, and the decree of the chancellor adjudging that Stern & Kraus are not entitled to the relief prayed for against Christian Craft Grocery Co., ordering the funds paid over to the latter, and dismissing the bill. This decree is assigned as error.…

1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.

Previously to April 9, 1885, C. • D. Henderson and S. E. Henderson were engaged in the mercantile business, as partners, under firm name of Henderson Bros., and while thus doing business the firm became indebted to Stern & Kraus, ivho on April 9, 1885, obtained a judgment on their claim for the sum of $419.04, and on March 26,1891, a certificate of said judgment was duly recorded in the probate office, as authorized by statute. Previously to the rendition of the judgment, the firm of Henderson Bros, became insolvent, and was dissolved, and the individual members thereof had no further…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Saunders v. . ReillyNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  2. Mayer v. ClarkSupreme Court of Alabama · 1866
  3. Reese & Heylin v. BradfordSupreme Court of Alabama · 1848
  4. Wilson v. StrobachSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
  5. Andrews v. KeithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1859

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  1. First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933

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