Little Rock Furniture Manufacturing Co. v. Kavanaugh
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants were plaintiffs below, and alleged in their complaint, 'Substantially, the following facts. The plaintiffs are corporations, organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, and are engaged in the manufacture and sale of furniture.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants were plaintiffs below, and alleged in their complaint, 'Substantially, the following facts. The plaintiffs are corporations, organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, and are engaged in the manufacture and sale of furniture. At a mass meeting of the citizens of Little Rock, held in the summer of 1910, to arrange plans for entertaining the Confederate Reunion in May, 1911, the defendants were selected as an executive committee, with W. M. Kavanaugh as chairman, to control the…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.,
(after stating the facts). Appellants say the evidence is practically undisputed, and that a verdict should have been directed in their favor.' That this is true because appellees were members of a voluntary association, and acted within the scope of their authority in making the contract sued on, and that they are therefore within the rule of law that, “Each member of an association is liable for the debts thereof, incurred during his period of membership, and which have been necessarily contracted for the purposes of carrying out the objects for which the association was formed.”…
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