Hudson v. Spaulding

This action is brought against a large number of defendants upon the theory that they were the members of a joint-stock association organized in the spring of 1886 for the purpose of carrying on the business of base-ball playing. One of their number, Samuel Hodge, in the summer of 1886, at the request, as it is claimed by plaintiff, of the directors of the association, furnished board to two of the employés of the association to the amount of $110.57, of which $24 was paid in June, 1886, and the balance of the claim was assigned by Hodge to plaintiff on September 1,1887. Soon after that this…