Legal Opinion
Owen v. Shepard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 29, 1894No. 284PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Error to the United States Court in the Indian Territory.
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought by the defendants in error, Shepard, Grove & Shepard, who are lawyers practicing in the Indian Territory, against the plaintiffs in error, Robert L. Owen and James E. Reynolds, to recover fees for legal services. There was a trial to a jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants sued out this writ of error.
The errors chiefly relied on relate to the rulings of the lower court in giving and in refusing instructions upon the question whether the Indian Trading Company was a legally constituted corporation. The defendants…
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