Clem v. Wise
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Speake. This was a statutory action of detinue brought by the appellee, George W. Wise, against the appellant, Wiley Clem, to recover two mules. The suit ivas originally commenced in a justice of the peace court and from a judgment rendered in said court in favor of the plaintiff the defendant appealed to the circuit court.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Speake. This was a statutory action of detinue brought by the appellee, George W. Wise, against the appellant, Wiley Clem, to recover two mules. The suit ivas originally commenced in a justice of the peace court and from a judgment rendered in said court in favor of the plaintiff the defendant appealed to the circuit court. In the circuit court the plaintiff filed a new complaint for the recovery in detinue of the same mules. On the trial of the case it was shown that one J. M. Todd, on January IT, 1898, executed a…
1Opinion of the CourtShabpe, J.
If it be conceded that the writing signed by the directors of the mercantile corporation was, as is contended for appellant, “no more than a minute of what was done at a directors’ meeting,” and that it did not operate in itself to transfer the mortgage through which the plaintiff claimed the property sued for, yet as a minute of such meeting it was, in connection with the by-law vesting the power of the corporation in the directors and the plaintiff’s oral testimony, admissible as evidence of a sale and as authority in *408plaintiff as president- to make the transfer in behalf of the corporation.
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