Edwards v. Union Bank of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Leon Superior Court to late Court of Appeals of the Territory of Florida, transferred to this Court. This was an action of trespass vi et armis, tried February 1845, in the late Superior Court for Leon County, when there was a ver-diet for appellant. On motion of appellee judgment was arrested; whereupon, appellant prayed an appeal. The opinion of the Court contains the reasons assigned for arrest of the judgment and the other facts of the case.
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Appeal from Leon Superior Court to late Court of Appeals of the Territory of Florida, transferred to this Court. This was an action of trespass vi et armis, tried February 1845, in the late Superior Court for Leon County, when there was a ver-diet for appellant. On motion of appellee judgment was arrested; whereupon, appellant prayed an appeal. The opinion of the Court contains the reasons assigned for arrest of the judgment and the other facts of the case. Corporations, in all their privileges and liabilities, are assimilated as nearly as possible, to individuals. C. J. Marshall, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, Chief Justice:
This is an action of trespass, instituted by John D. Edwards against the Union Bank of Florida, in the Superior Court of Leon county, in the Middle District of Florida.
The declaration contains two counts. The first charges : “ That the said Union Bank of Florida, by its servants, officers and agents, on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and on divers other days and times between that day, and before the commencement of this suit, with force and arms, &c., broke and entered divers, to wit: four closes of the said plaintiff, situated in…
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