Mays v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chambers. Tried before the Hon. JNO. Gill ShoeteR. This action was commenced in August, 1853, and was founded on a promissory note of which the following is a copy: “ §89,75. One day after date, I promise to pay Robert L. Mays, adm’r, <&c., the sum of $89,75, for value received this March 13, 1851. (signed) Wilson Williams.” The plaintiff sued on this note as administrator of Thomas J. Williams, deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chambers. Tried before the Hon. JNO. Gill ShoeteR. This action was commenced in August, 1853, and was founded on a promissory note of which the following is a copy: “ §89,75. One day after date, I promise to pay Robert L. Mays, adm’r, <&c., the sum of $89,75, for value received this March 13, 1851. (signed) Wilson Williams.” The plaintiff sued on this note as administrator of Thomas J. Williams, deceased. The bill of exceptions states, that after the plaintiff had read the note in evidence, “ the defendant proved by a witness, that said note was given entirely…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
If the note sued on rested on a valid consideration at the time it was given, it would impose an obligation on the maker, tbe force of which it would be beyond the power of the legislature to impair; but the act of 1823 not only prohibits the practice of physic or surgery by unlicensed physicians, but expressly provides that all bonds, notes, promises, and assumpsits, made to any person not licensed iii the .manner thereinafter specified, the consideration of which shall be for services rendered as a physician or surgeon prescribing for the cure of diseases, shall be utterly void. — Clay’s…
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