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Johnston, Samuel M. |
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1.15.108-111 - Letter
Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Anne B. Call, a Trustee in the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Call has asked several lawyers, including Johnston to give their opinions on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation can transfer their parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the FSTC membership or an amendment to the constituttion. Johnston's opinion is that one of the t...
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1.15.112-113 - Letter
Letter dated 6/6/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call, a trustee for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Johnston is further clarifying his previous letter in which he gives his opinion that the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation cannot transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the membership or an amendment to the constitution. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Cal...
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1.15.96 - Letter
Letter dated 5/19/1931 to Samuel M. Johnston from Anne Bellangee Call. Call, a Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation is writing Johnson for his opinion on the legalities of transferring FSTC-owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope without a constitutional amendment. She and A. E. Schalkenbach, a former FSTC Trustee, would like Johnson's opinion. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.
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1.16.11 - Letter
Letter dated 6/10/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach, a former Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, from Anne Belangee Call, a current Trustee. Both have been working on the issue of the constitutionality of the transfer of parkland from the FSTC to the Town of Fairhope, an issue which has passed the FSTC Council Call is updated Schalkenbach on the current situation in Fairhope, and says she has asked attorney Samuel M. Johnston to give her ...
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1.16.14 - Letter
Letter dated 6/13/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne B. Call letting him know how much Mr. Johnston, attorney, will charge to take their court case through the Circuit Court and before the Supreme Court of Alabama. This is in regards to their dispute as Trustee and previous Trustee with other Fairhope Single Tax Corporation council members with regards to the transfer of the park lands to the Town of Fairhope. They have received many legal opin...
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1.16.1-95 - Correspondence
This folder is a continuation of the correspondence of Anne B. Call (folder 2 of 2) which pertains to the conveyence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation park lands to the Town of Fairhope and the dispute between the Secretary and the Trustees (see Report to Members 1.15.19-22 for a summary of both positions) and the actions that followed. Legal interpretations of the FSTC constitution were asked for and given by both sides. The transfer was ap...
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1.16.9 - Letter
Letter dated 6/8/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call from William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois. Holly thanks Call for the spiced pecans and the copy of the opinion of attorney Samuel M. Johnston. Both Johnston and Holly were asked by Call and A. E. Schalkenbach to give their opinions on the legality of transferring Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum or a constitutional amendment. Bot...
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1.17.1-80 - Correspondence
Correspondence of Anne B. Call 1931-1932 including her summary of the transfer of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation park lands to the Town of Fairhope, her position on the matter as Trustee at the time of the transfer, the Deed conveying the park lands to the Town of Fairhope (see 1.17.17-19) and legal documents (see 1.17.22-54) prepared by Smith & Johnston, Solicitors for the Complainants (A. E. Schalkenbach, E. Yancy Cohen and W. R. F. Call) ...
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