Ewing v. Medlock
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa county. George L. Medlock was summoned before a justice of the peace of Tuscaloosa county, to answer to Samuel B. Ewing, treasurer of the Jockey Club, and where a judgment was rendered against him, from which he appealed to the Circuit Court.
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In error to the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa county. George L. Medlock was summoned before a justice of the peace of Tuscaloosa county, to answer to Samuel B. Ewing, treasurer of the Jockey Club, and where a judgment was rendered against him, from which he appealed to the Circuit Court. In that Court, the plaintiff filed a statement as treasurer of the Tuskaloosa Jockey Club, claiming of defendant, the sum of fifty dollars, for the amount of his subscription to said club, due first November, eighteen hundred and thirty-five: and by the verdict of a jury, judgment was entered for the defendant.…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, C. J.
The promise upon which the plaintiff in error relied, in the Court below, to recover of the defendant, was in writing, and for the payment of money. It was not payable to any person by name, but to the treasurer of the Tus-kaloosa Jockey Club. The suit wás brought by the *84plaintiff in error, as treasurer of that club. The club was not incorporated, out is a private «f-roei-ation of individuals. It was admitted in the Cb-mt below, that the plaintiff in error wm; ¡he treasurer of the' club. The Court below deNrauned that this evidence did not entitle the plaintiff to recover, and upon the motion…
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