Southern Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Lanier
Supreme Court of Florida
This cause was brought up by appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Gadsden County, sitting in Chaueery.^ In July, 1839, Augustus H. Lanier executed his bond to the Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned to pay the sum of ton thousand dollars, on or before the expiration of five years from the date thereof, with interest at eight per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually.
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This cause was brought up by appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Gadsden County, sitting in Chaueery.^ In July, 1839, Augustus H. Lanier executed his bond to the Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned to pay the sum of ton thousand dollars, on or before the expiration of five years from the date thereof, with interest at eight per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. On the same day, he also executed a mortgage to said Bank on certain lands and slaves, to secure the payment of said bond. On the execution and delivery of…
1Opinion of the Court
SEMMES, J.;
This was a suit in Chancery, commenced in the name of the Southern Life Insurance and Trust Conrpany and the State of Florida, against A. II. Lanier.
The preliminary question made in argument, and raised by the answer of respondent, is that the State of Florida has no interest in the suit, and that, therefore, the bill should be dismissed. The objection is presented by special matter, set up in the answer by way of demurrer, under the provisions of our statute law. Thomp. Dig., 458, §9.
We do not doubt the correctness of the doctrine, or its application to this case, that, to sustain…
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