Manning v. Mannning
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court of Madison. The bill was filed by James Manning, who alledges, that he left his signatures on blank sheets of paper, with Robert J. Manning, with the distinct understanding, that they should be used only in business transactions; that on the 11th October, 1839, by writing his own name, and the form of a note, over one of these signatures, R. J. Manning made the joint note of himself and complainant, negotiable and payable at the Branch Bank at…
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Error to the Chancery Court of Madison. The bill was filed by James Manning, who alledges, that he left his signatures on blank sheets of paper, with Robert J. Manning, with the distinct understanding, that they should be used only in business transactions; that on the 11th October, 1839, by writing his own name, and the form of a note, over one of these signatures, R. J. Manning made the joint note of himself and complainant, negotiable and payable at the Branch Bank at Decatur, for $1,900, payable twenty-four months after date, to defendant, Blevins, who indorsed it to Kavanaugh, by whom it…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
The object of this bill is, to obtain relief against the payment of a note, upon the ground, that it was executed upon the consideration of money won at cards. The decree is sought upon two statutes of this State. One, passed in 1807, declares, that “all promises, agreements, notes, bills, bonds, or other contract, judgment, &c., made, &c., upon any gaming consideration, shall be utterly void and of no effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.” [Clay’s Dig. 257, § 1.] And in 1812, it was enacted, that “ the Courts of Equity shall have jurisdiction in all cases of gambling consideration,…
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