Mechanics' Bank v. Heard
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit. Surrender of charter. Tried by Judge AuCDSTUS Reese. Richmond Superior Court. June Term, 1867. Heard, (on the 8th September, 1866,) sued said Bank for $11,677.00, besides interest due on certain of its bills, which he owned, and which the Bank had refused to, pay.
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Assumpsit. Surrender of charter. Tried by Judge AuCDSTUS Reese. Richmond Superior Court. June Term, 1867. Heard, (on the 8th September, 1866,) sued said Bank for $11,677.00, besides interest due on certain of its bills, which he owned, and which the Bank had refused to, pay. The return of the sheriff was, “personally served a copy of the within, upon the defendant, this the 12th day of September, 1866. John D. Smith, Sheriff'R. Co.” At June Term, 1867, this return was amended so as to read thus: “ Personally served a copy of the within upon Thomas S. Metcalf, President of the Mechanics’ Bank,…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The various grounds occupied in argument by plaintiff’s counsel, are so numerous as to forbid a notice of all of them in this opinion. Were we under a necessity to discuss every matter drawn into the arguments, to which we have listened most patiently, it would impose on us the labor of writing a treatise on corporations; for this, we have neither time nor inclination. Confined,- as it will be, to such points as we deem most material, we- will accompany their notice with such observations as we think will give an effectual answer to the strongest portions of the argument made in support of…
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