Evans v. Lilly & Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Noxubee county. Hon. Robert E. Cochean, Judge. Lilly & Company, a corporation, appellee, was plaintiff 'in the court below; Evans and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are clearly inferable from the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of Noxubee county. Hon. Robert E. Cochean, Judge. Lilly & Company, a corporation, appellee, was plaintiff 'in the court below; Evans and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are clearly inferable from the opinion of the court. Appellee joined issue on the special pleas, and the evidence as to the truth of the pleas was in conflict, with the great preponderance of the evidence sustaining the pleas; it was, therefore, error for the court below to grant the peremptory…
1Opinion of the Court
Eletoher, J\,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case, as made by the declaration, pleas, and proof, presents the question on liability of the members of a voluntary association for an obligation of the association, evidenced by a promissory note signed by the members; the signature being followed by certain abbreviations indicating the offices which they held in the association. That the members signing such a note are individually liable is thoroughly well settled. The case of Lawler v. Murphy, 58 Conn. 294, 20 Atl. 457, 8 L. R. A. 113, is precisely in point. That case holds that the…
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- Chick v. TrevettSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1841
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