Whetstone v. Bank at Montgomery
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. . Motion by the Bank for judgment against the plaintiff in error, as indorser of-a bill of exchange for $1000, and judgment for the Bank. Upon the trial, as appears by a bill of exceptions, the defendant read to the jury, the second section of the charter of the Montgomery Rail Road Company — a communication from Chas.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. . Motion by the Bank for judgment against the plaintiff in error, as indorser of-a bill of exchange for $1000, and judgment for the Bank. Upon the trial, as appears by a bill of exceptions, the defendant read to the jury, the second section of the charter of the Montgomery Rail Road Company — a communication from Chas. T. Pollard, its President, dated 28th February, 1838 — the report of a committee of the Directors of the Bank, dated 7th March, 1838, upon said communication — a contract between the Bank and the Rail Road Company, made shortly after…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
In the Bank of Montgomery v. Crocheron, 5 Ala. 251, we considered the principal questions presented by the record in this case. There, as in this case, the controversy grew out of a contract entered into between the Bank at Montgomery and the Wetumpka and West Point Rail Road Company, by which the former agreed to receive in payment of debts, and put into circulation, such bonds, or notes, as the Rail Road Company might lawfully issue. The Bank accordingly received some of the paper emitted by the Rail Road, and again loaned it out in the purchase of bills of exchange, upon one of which this…
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