Carter v. First Ecclesiastical Society of Canterbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of assumpsit, containing three counts. The first was general indebitatus assumpsit, for 183 dollars, 13 cents, had and received, by the defendants, to the plaintiff’s use. The second count, seeking to recover the same sum, stated the circumstances of the case, specially. The third count was general indebitatus assumpsit for 36 dollars. The case was as follows.
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THIS was an action of assumpsit, containing three counts. The first was general indebitatus assumpsit, for 183 dollars, 13 cents, had and received, by the defendants, to the plaintiff’s use. The second count, seeking to recover the same sum, stated the circumstances of the case, specially. The third count was general indebitatus assumpsit for 36 dollars. The case was as follows. At a legal society meeting, held on the 21st day of January, 1811, the defendants voted, that a committee appointed for the purpose, should sell 44 pews in the meeting-house, and execute proper conveyances, the form…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
It appears by the motion, that on the 21st day of January, 1811, the defendants agreed, by vote, to sell the , pews in their meeting-house, prescribing the form of conveyance to be given, and the security to be taken, and appropriated the avails, so soon as 5,000 dollars should be raised, if raised before the 1 st day of September, then next, as a perpetual, permanent and invariable fund, for the maintenance of the gospel, and an orthodox minister ; that the requisite sum was seasonably raised, by a sale of the pews, whereof the plaintiff became a purchaser of one, and therefor gave his note, *461…
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