M'Auley v. Billenger
New York Supreme Court
IN ERROR, on certiorari to a Justice’s Court. B., and the other defendants in error, sued M‘Auley before the Justice, to recover the first instalment of a sum sub- ’ scribed by him for the repairs of a church.
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IN ERROR, on certiorari to a Justice’s Court. B., and the other defendants in error, sued M‘Auley before the Justice, to recover the first instalment of a sum sub- ’ scribed by him for the repairs of a church. The defendants in error, at a meeting held at Union Church, in Danube, were appointed a committee to receive subscriptions, and to contract for the repairs of that church, in the manner specified m a written paper, the subscribers tó which pro-raised to pay to the committee, or either of them, the sums by them respectively subscribed, in four equal instalments, the first of which was to…
1Per curiam
The plaintiff in error voluntarily entered
into a contract, by which he engagep to pay to the defendants in error, twenty-five dollars, for the purpose, and in the *90manner specified in the instrument to which he subscribed his name. The consideration for his promise was the repairing of tiie church. By signing the subscription, he sanctioned the acts of the meeting in resolving to make the repairs, and in the appointment of the committee for that purpose; and he, moreover, recognised the authority of the committee to receive the subscription money, and to contract "for the repairs. The only…
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