Wellersburg & West Newton Plank Road Co. v. Young
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Apijeai, from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. Assumpsit brought on the 16th of December 1852, by the appellant against the appellee, to recover a subscription made by the defendant for eight shares of the stock of the plaintiff at $25 per share.
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Apijeai, from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. Assumpsit brought on the 16th of December 1852, by the appellant against the appellee, to recover a subscription made by the defendant for eight shares of the stock of the plaintiff at $25 per share. The declaration counts upon the subscription as a promissory note for $200, payable by the defendant to the plaintiff on demand, and also as a contract to pay $200 for eight shares of the stock bargained and sold by the plaintiff to the defendant. It also contains a count for money laid out and expended, and the insimul computassent count. Plea…
1Opinion of the Court
Eccleston, 3.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
This is an action of assumpsit which was ’ tried upon the general issue.
For the purpose of proving the plaintiff to be a corporation, letters patent issued by the governor of Pennsylvania, were offered in evidence, to the admissibility of which the defendant objected, but the court permitted the same to go to the jury; and the defendant excepted. We are not, however, called on to revise that decision, inasmuch as there is no appeal on the part of the defendant.
The plaintiff also gave in evidence the following “subscription list, book or paper:”
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