Newton Manufacturing Co. v. White
Supreme Court of Georgia
Corporations. Pleading. Evidence. Agency, •etc. Before Judge Grenn. Newton Superior Court. September Term, 1870. H. and T. M. White brought against the Newton Manufacturing Company, a corporation, an action for certain cotton alleged to have been sold by them to defendant on the 1st of July, 1865, at fifty cents per pound, in one count, and in another for certain cotton on that day loaned by them to defendant upon its promise to pay for it at said price or return it in kind,…
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Corporations. Pleading. Evidence. Agency, •etc. Before Judge Grenn. Newton Superior Court. September Term, 1870. H. and T. M. White brought against the Newton Manufacturing Company, a corporation, an action for certain cotton alleged to have been sold by them to defendant on the 1st of July, 1865, at fifty cents per pound, in one count, and in another for certain cotton on that day loaned by them to defendant upon its promise to pay for it at said price or return it in kind, on demand; and they averred a demand, and a refusal by defendant to pay or return the cotton in kind. Service was by…
1Opinion of the CourtLochrane, C. J.
This was án action brought by the Whites against the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of certain cotton, alleged to have been received by them under contract. The record is volum'i%>us and embraces the evidence of many witnesses upon questions of fact, found by the jury. We do not propose to review the testimony, as the controlling question of the case turns upon the law governing corporations, and its application to the theory of defense relied on by the defendant below.
The action was brought in the ordinary form of assumpsit, to the March Term of Newton Superior Court. The return of the…
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