Jemison v. Governor of Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Marengo. Tried before the Hon. Luther R. Smith. This action was brought by “ the governor of the State of Alabama,” against Robert Jemison, H. A. Tayloe, Gotlieb Breitling, Nathan Bradley, James Manning, and William H. Roberts; and was commenced on the 6th September, 1860. Breitling, Manning and Roberts died pending the suit, and the action was prosecuted to judgment against Jemison and Tayloe, who alone defended it.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Marengo. Tried before the Hon. Luther R. Smith. This action was brought by “ the governor of the State of Alabama,” against Robert Jemison, H. A. Tayloe, Gotlieb Breitling, Nathan Bradley, James Manning, and William H. Roberts; and was commenced on the 6th September, 1860. Breitling, Manning and Roberts died pending the suit, and the action was prosecuted to judgment against Jemison and Tayloe, who alone defended it. The action was founded on a penal bond, of which the following is a copy: “ The State of Alabama, 1 Know all men, by these presMarengo County. Í…
1Opinion of the CourtB. E. Saeeold, J.
The facts of this case pertinent to the issues to be decided are these: The Marengo Plank or Covered Boad Company, incorporated February 5,1850, applied for and received a proportion of the two-per-cent* fund, under an act passed February 9, 1850, disposing of the portion unappropriated at that time, subject to the conditions prescribed in an act passed January 23,1845, to loan the two-per-cent, fund to the Montgomery & West Point and Tennessee & Coosa Railroad Companies. In consideration of this loan, the said company executed two bonds, with the defendants as sureties, on the 13th of…
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