Pearce v. Bank of Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. This was a summary proceeding, by notice and motion, instituted by tbe Bank of Mobile, against George L. Pearce, and was founded on tbe defendant’s promissory notes for $2,900, dated the 8th March, 1857, payable and negotiable at the Bank of Mobile, ninety days after date, to David' Stodder, by whom it was endorsed and transferred to the said bank.
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Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. This was a summary proceeding, by notice and motion, instituted by tbe Bank of Mobile, against George L. Pearce, and was founded on tbe defendant’s promissory notes for $2,900, dated the 8th March, 1857, payable and negotiable at the Bank of Mobile, ninety days after date, to David' Stodder, by whom it was endorsed and transferred to the said bank. The notice was issued on the 13th January, 1858, was served on the defendant on the same day, and notified him that motion for judgment would be made against him -at the…
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, C. J.—
The term of the original charter of the Bank of Mobile expired, by its own limitation, on the 1st day of January, 1839. Before its expiration, and in 1834, an act was passed by the legislature, whereby the term of the original charter, and the powers, rights, privileges and immunities thereby granted, were continued and extended, from and after the 1st day of January, 1839, until the 1st day of January, 1859, and whereby the Bank was authorized (among other things) to take and receive upon promissory notes made negotiable and payable at any bank within the city of Mobile, after…
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