Lawson v. Warren
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in equity. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The bill in this case was filed on the 6th February, 1890, by James B. Warren, against Wm.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in equity. Tried before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The bill in this case was filed on the 6th February, 1890, by James B. Warren, against Wm. H. Lawson, and alleged that the complainant, during the years 1881-88, carried on a mercantile business in the city of Montgomery, under the name of J. B. Warren & Co., but solely on his own account; that W. H. Lawson, a resident citizen of said county, “is justly indebted to him in the sum of $10,000, for goods, wares, merchandise and chattels sold to him by complainant, and for moneys loaned to him, and for…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
In Southern Railway Construction Company v. McKenzie, reported in 85 Ala. 548, the same statute *586was relied, on as conferring an equitable remedy, as is made the authority for the present suit. The bill in that case averred that the defendant, a corporation, had ceased to do business, was without visible property subject to execution, or to other ordinary process of the law; and on information and belief, it charged that defendant had property justly liable for the payment of its debts, that the kind and description of that property was unknown to complainants, and that “without a discovery of…
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