M'Clure v. Bennett
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Jefferson Circuit Court. — This Was an action .of debt against the defendants below, the appellants, upon the following sealed note: “For value received this 2d of Oo 1820, we the trustees of the first presbyterian congregation in the town of Madison, Indiana, do bind ourselves and our successors in office to pay to Brook Bennett or order on demand ygg dollars, with interest from the 23d of May, 1820. Witness our hands and seals, &c.
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APPEAL from the Jefferson Circuit Court. — This Was an action .of debt against the defendants below, the appellants, upon the following sealed note: “For value received this 2d of Oo 1820, we the trustees of the first presbyterian congregation in the town of Madison, Indiana, do bind ourselves and our successors in office to pay to Brook Bennett or order on demand ygg dollars, with interest from the 23d of May, 1820. Witness our hands and seals, &c. John Ritchie, (seal.) — David M’Clure, (seal.) — James Wilson, (seal.) — Trustees of the first presbyterian congregation in Madison.”
1Opinion of the CourtHolman, J.
The declaration in this case sets forth a writing under seal, by which John Ritchie, David M’ Clure, and James Wilson, by the style and description of “trustees of the first presbyterian congregation in the town of Madison,” bound themselves and “their successors in office” to pay Brook Bennett 769 dollars. To this note they severally signed their names and affixed their seals, as trustees of the first presbyterian congregation in the town of Madison. The defendants pleaded,' that a number of persons had associated together as a religious society, and assumed the name and style of the' first…
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