A. J. Cranor Co. v. Miller
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Cliaiicery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas- I-I. Smith. The bill in this case was filed by Charles G. Miller and C. T. Rogers, as complainants, against the A. J. Cranor Company, Limited, the Russell Lumber Company, Limited, and John Jackson, seeking icy avoid a contract-made between these parties and to have property rights in certain machinery and timber land restored to complainants.
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Appeal from Mobile Cliaiicery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas- I-I. Smith. The bill in this case was filed by Charles G. Miller and C. T. Rogers, as complainants, against the A. J. Cranor Company, Limited, the Russell Lumber Company, Limited, and John Jackson, seeking icy avoid a contract-made between these parties and to have property rights in certain machinery and timber land restored to complainants. The facts made by the bill are that the complainants and A. J. Cranor Company, Limited, entered into a contract the provisions of which are as follows: That the complainants are the owners of…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This bill was filed to cancel a contract for the sale of a mill outfit and certain timber rights, and after a delivery of the property by the complainants to the respondents, and seeks to have the contract declared void aib initio, because made in violation of section 1316 of the Code of 1896, or, if valid in its inception, that it be canceled upon the ground of fraud practiced upon complainants by the vendee, the Cranor Company. We do not think that a failure of the foreign corporation to comply with the constitutional' provisions and section 1316 is available to these complainants, as the…
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- Farrior v. New England Mortgage Security Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Brewster v. . HatchNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Gamble v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- Kindred v. New England Mortgage Security Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1896
- Dean v. OliverSupreme Court of Alabama · 1901
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