McAlpin v. Garden

Action to recover $4,000 damages for defendant’s failure to deliver to plaintiff one full $5,000 share of the Santee Club upon the written contract, dated November 10, 1898, of the former so to do. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,000 and interest. Defendant moves to set aside the verdict and for a new trial. The Santee Club was a proprietary corporation for the use of its members as a shooting club. At the time-of its incorporation the club owned no property, but it was intended by its promoters (of whom the plaintiff was one) to acquire certain lands in South Carolina.…