Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 147 |
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action Affirmed agent agreement Alabama alleged amended amount ANDERSON APPEAL appellee Asso Assumpsit Attorney authority averments Bank chancellor Chancery Court charge circuit court City Court claim Cleburne county Code Company complainant complainant's concur contract conviction corporation cotton county court court erred court of chancery court of equity creditors cross-bill damages debt deceased Decided April Decided June decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer DENSON dismiss DOWDELL Ency error evidence executed facts fendant filed foreclosure fraud guilty HARALSON Heard Heard before HON held indictment injunction Jefferson county judge judgment jurisdiction jury land lien MASSEY WILSON ment Montgomery mortgage motion notes opinion original bill overruled owner parties payment person plaintiff plea probate proof purchase question relief rendered respondent rule SIMPSON South statute stockholders sufficient suit supra testified testimony tion trial trust TYSON verdict Walker County WEAKLEY witness writ
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Page 330 - ... the persons so constituted trustees shall have authority to sue for and recover the debts and property of the dissolved corporation, by the name of the trustees of such corporation, describing it by its corporate name, and shall be jointly and severally responsible to the creditors and stockholders of such corporation, to the extent of its property and effects that shall come into their hands...
Page 303 - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Senate sitting as a court of impeachment, a Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, Chancery Courts, Courts of Probate, such...
Page 445 - No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without having one or more known places of business, and an authorized agent or agents in the same upon whom process may be served.
Page 503 - Where the accounts are all on one side, but there are circumstances of great complication or difficulties in the way of adequate relief at law. (3) Where a fiduciary relation exists between the parties, and a duty rests upon the defendant to render an account.
Page 261 - No trust concerning lands, except such as results by implication or construction of law, or which may be transferred or extinguished by operation of law...
Page 330 - with full power to settle the affairs, collect the outstanding debts and divide the moneys and other property among the stockholders, after paying the debts due and owing by such corporation at the time of its dissolution...
Page 303 - The Circuit Courts shall have original jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal, not excepted in this Constitution, and not prohibited by law; and appellate jurisdiction from all inferior courts and tribunals, and a supervisory control of the same. They shall also have power to issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, injunction, quo warranto...
Page 64 - He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.
Page 232 - ... a copy of which is hereto attached, marked Exhibit A, and made a part hereof.
Page 374 - In the laws of all civilized nations, that if a man either by words or by conduct, has intimated that he consents to an act which has been done, and that he will offer no opposition to it, although it could not have been lawfully done without his consent, and he thereby induces others to do that from which they otherwise might have abstained, he cannot question the legality of the act he had so sanctioned, to the prejudice of those who have so given faith to his, words, or to the fair inference to...