Bend v. Susquehanna Bridge & Bank Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit by the appellees, (the plaintiffs in the court below,) against the appéllant, (the-defendant in that court,) to recover the amount of three instalments of $5-each on 100 shares of stock in the company of the plaintiff's, alleged by them to belong to the defendant. The general issue was pleaded.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit by the appellees, (the plaintiffs in the court below,) against the appéllant, (the-defendant in that court,) to recover the amount of three instalments of $5-each on 100 shares of stock in the company of the plaintiff's, alleged by them to belong to the defendant. The general issue was pleaded. At the trial below, the plaintiffs read in evidence the acts of assembly of 1808,ch: 111; 1812, ch. 143; 1814, ch. 66, and 1817", ch. 153. They then proved that more than two thousand shares of stock were subscribed, and that the company went regularly into…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by.
Buciianav, J.
The action was brought to recover the, amount of three instalments, of live dollars each, on one hundred shares of stock in the Susquehanna Bridge and. Bank Company, alleged by the plaintiffs to belong to the defendant. Moses Poor subscribed ip his own name for the stock in question, and afterwards duly appointed Samuel Clendenen, his attorney, to transfer it to John JJ. Poor; in pursuance, of which power, Samuel Clendenen did, on the 3d of October, in, the year 1816, transfer the said Stock, on the bank, to John H, Poor, according to the…
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