Mead v. Keeler
New York Supreme Court
MOTION by the plaintiff to set aside a nonsuit, and for a new trial; ordered to be heard at the general term in the first instance. The action was tried at the Cayuga circuit in October, 1855, before Justice Strong and a jury. In March, 1831, a company was organized under the act o'f the legislature, passed March 22, 1811, entitled “ An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes,” (1 R. S. 4th ed., 1210,) by the name of the “ Moravia Cotton Mill.”
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MOTION by the plaintiff to set aside a nonsuit, and for a new trial; ordered to be heard at the general term in the first instance. The action was tried at the Cayuga circuit in October, 1855, before Justice Strong and a jury. In March, 1831, a company was organized under the act o'f the legislature, passed March 22, 1811, entitled “ An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes,” (1 R. S. 4th ed., 1210,) by the name of the “ Moravia Cotton Mill.” The certificate of incorporation declared the object of the company to be “ for the purpose of establishing a cotton manufactory in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Welles, J.
It appeared upon the trial that on the 21st day of January, 1850, one Gideon Briggs lent the company $155, for which a note was given in the following words and figures :
“$155.00. For value received, the Moravia Cotton Mill promise to pay Gideon Briggs or bearer, one hundred and fifty-five dollars, with interest. A. Cady, Agent.
Moravia, Jan. 21,1850. per G. C. Dibble.”
Dibble testified that the Moravia Cotton Mills organized and did business under the certificate of incorporation, which had been read in evidence. That he was in their employ for ten , years, up to the…
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