Anderson v. Blair
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge. Bill by I. O. Anderson and others against Algernon Blair for a receiver, and to enforce the performance of a contract, and an accounting. From a judgment sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainants appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge. Bill by I. O. Anderson and others against Algernon Blair for a receiver, and to enforce the performance of a contract, and an accounting. From a judgment sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainants appeal. The allegations are in effect that orators and said Blair made and entered into an agreement, by the terms of which they jointly and collectively agreed that they would use their joint and individual efforts and legitimate influence to obtain from the United States government a contract for the construction of a military…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
In that aspect of it which needs now to be considered, this is a bill by appellants against appellee for an accounting of the profits earned by appellee in the construction of a cantonment for troops of the United States near the city of Montgomery. The facts alleged will appear in the reporter’s statement of the bill as amended. Demurrer to the bill was sustained in the court below, and on this appeal two propositions are relied upon as sufficient, either of them, to sustain that ruling: (1) The alleged agreement between complainants (appellants) and defendant (appellee) was void as against…
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