Rogers v. Burr
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on contract. Before Judge Hunt. Pike superior court. March term, 1894. Mrs. M. E. Burr, administratrix of the estate of H. R. Chambers, brought suit against J. J. Rogers and a number of others, upon the following contract: “Georgia, Pike County.
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Action on contract. Before Judge Hunt. Pike superior court. March term, 1894. Mrs. M. E. Burr, administratrix of the estate of H. R. Chambers, brought suit against J. J. Rogers and a number of others, upon the following contract: “Georgia, Pike County. The undersigned parties, recognizing the importance to our town and community of a speedy and successful completion of the subscription to the capital stock of the Barnesville Manufacturing Company, and it being known to us that there is a balance of about five thousand dollars of said capital stock untaken and unsubscribed for, and having…
1Opinion of the Court
Janes, Judge.
1. The official report sets out fully the declaration as amended, the demurrer, and the contract sued on. This contract, on the faith of which the administrator of Chambers subscribed for sixty shares of stock in the Barnesville Manufacturing Company, stipulates that if, at the expiration of three years from December 1st, 1889, the subscriber desires no longer to carry the stock, the plaintiffs in error will, “with thirty days notice,” pay such subscriber par value for the same. This provision gave to the subscriber the right, *14at the expiration of three years from the time…
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