Directors of the St. Andrew's Bay Land Co. v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of Florida
The plaintiffs- in error brought an action of covenant •against N. II. Mitchell, in the Circuit Court of Walton County, upon the following instrument, signed and sealed by said Mitchell: Territory of Florida — Washington County.
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The plaintiffs- in error brought an action of covenant •against N. II. Mitchell, in the Circuit Court of Walton County, upon the following instrument, signed and sealed by said Mitchell: Territory of Florida — Washington County. This memorandum of an agreement made and entered into between the St. Andrew’s Bay Land Company on the one part, and Nicholas H. Mitchell of the other part, witnesseth : That the said Company Iras this day leased to the «aid Mitchell, until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-five, the block or square, tying on St. Andrew’s Bay, the houses and…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Justice,
pronounced the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff in the Court below, brought covenant against the defendant in error, on an agreement which was signed and sealed by Mitchell, but which was not sealed by the company, but was sealed by the committee who represented the corporation, with their private seals.
*196On demurrer to the declaration, judgment was given for the defendant. At the foot of the demurrer, the following point is stated, viz: “ That the form of action is misconceived herein, to wit, that the corporation, having contracted through a…
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