FIVE COURT DOCUMENTS: SUPREME COURT...CITY OF ALBANY, SS: JOHN TOWNSEND, ERASTUS CORNING, JARED L. RATHBONE, SAMUEL STEVENS, JAMES STEVENSON, GEORGE W. STANTON AND SAMUEL M. WOODRUFF, PLAINTIFFS IN THIS CAUSE, BY SAMUEL M. WOODRUFF THEIR ATTORNEY, COMPLAIN OF JACOB DOWNING, DEFENDANT, IN THIS CAUSE...FOR THAT WHEREAS HERETOFORE, TO WIT, ON THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX, AT THE CITY OF ALBANY AFORESAID THE SAID DEFENDANT AND CERTAIN OTHER PERSONS WERE DESIROUS OF ASSOCIATING THEMSELVES TOGETHER FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROCURING A CERTAIN BLOCK OF GROUND IN THE CITY OF ALBANY, AND OF ERECTING A CERTAIN BUILDING THEREON, FOR THE ORNAMENT OF THE SAID CITY, AND THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SHOULD BECOME MEMBERS OF THE SAID ASSOCIATION...HE THE SAID DEFENDANT MADE AND SUBSCRIBED HIS CERTAIN AGREEMENT IN WRITING, AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: "ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE ALBANY EXCHANGE COMPANY...YET THE SAID PLAINTIFFS IN FACT SAY, THAT THE SAID DEFENDANT WHOLLY NEGLECTED AND REFUSED TO PAY THE SAID SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS UPON EACH SHARE SUBSCRIBED BY HIM AS AFORESAID, ACCORDING TO THE FORM AND EFFECT OF THE SAID AGREEMENT, AND OF THIS SAID PROMISE AND UNDERTAKING, TO WIT, AT ALBANY AFORESAID.
Albany: 1837. [offered with] JOHN TOWNSEND, ET AL. VERSUS JOEL B. NOTT. [offered with] JOHN TOWNSEND, ET AL. VERSUS JOEL R. DICKERMAN. [offered with] JOHN TOWNSEND, ET AL. VERSUS SAMUEL CHEEVER. Each of the foregoing documents folio, tied with ribbon at head of document, 5-6pp. Preprinted on rectos only with..... More
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