De Soto County v. Stranahan

Plaintiffs in the court below, Stranahan, Harris & Oatis, appellees and cross-appellants here, sued De Soto county, appellant and cross-appellee here, on an alleged contract of purchase of a road bond issue amounting to seventy-five thousand dollars. The declaration alleged a breach of the contract, in that the board of supervisors of the county had sold the bonds to their assignor, and thereafter breached the contract and resold the bonds to another party, alleging in the first count, that the county made one thousand two hundred fifty dollars profit on the sale, and that, if the bonds had…