U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1831

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Bradley

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Bradley
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided December 15, 1831
4 D.C. 193; 5 F. Cas. 562; 4 Cranch 193
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Bradley

Opinion of the Court

This was a motion for judgment for an instalment on a joint subscription by the defendants, in the handwriting of Mr. Bradley, for one hundred shares. The ten days’ notice, required by the fifth section of the charter, was served on Mr. Carroll on Sunday. Upon that ground the motion was overruled by the Court, although the parties had appeared according to the notice. Monkhouse v. Roberts, 8 East, 547; Rex v. Croke, Cowp. 26.

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