Gray v. President of the Portland Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The declaration in this action was in case, and contained the fol-owing counts, viz. 1st. Indebitatus assumpsit for 1491 dollars, 16 cents, money had and received by the defendants for the plaintiff’s use. 2d. A like count for 5000 dollars. 3d.
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The declaration in this action was in case, and contained the fol-owing counts, viz. 1st. Indebitatus assumpsit for 1491 dollars, 16 cents, money had and received by the defendants for the plaintiff’s use. 2d. A like count for 5000 dollars. 3d. “ For that the said company at, &c., on the fourth day of January, 1802, were legally possessed of a capital bank stock of 100,000 dollars, divided into 1000 shares of 100 dollars each, which shares were then holden by the several stockholders of said capital stock in divers proportions, the said W. G. then holding 70 of said shares in his own right,…
1Opinion of the Court
And now, at this term, the following opinions were delivered, viz.:—
Sewall, J.
The plaintiff demands 1491 dollars, 16 cents, and 5000 dollars, which several sums he alleges to have been received to his use, by the corporation denominated The President, [ * 376 ] Directors, and Company of the Portland * Dank. And in two other counts he sets forth, more specially, an interest of seventy shares in the stock of the same bank, consisting at first of one thousand shares, and in the privilege granted them by their incorporation, to increase their capital stock to the extent of three thousand shares;…
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