McCaulley v. Jenney

THIS was an action of covenant on a contract under seal by which the plaintiff agreed with the defendant, Nicholas Jenney, president of the Wilmington Rifle Club, that he would furnish the material and do all the plastering on the buildings of the club for a certain price per square yard, and which the latter agreed to pay him therefor. Although incorporated by an act of the legislature, the club had never had a corporate seal, but each of the parties had executed the contract by subscribing their names and affixing their respective seals to it in the form of scrolls made with a pen; the…