Smith v. Jones
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District. James El. Riddick, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE'COURT. This case was affirmed orally some time ago, the affirmance was set aside, and it now comes before us again on a motion for rehearing.
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Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District. James El. Riddick, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE'COURT. This case was affirmed orally some time ago, the affirmance was set aside, and it now comes before us again on a motion for rehearing. Jones & McPherson Bros, was a firm composed of H. Y. Jones, who resided in St. Louis, Mo., and kept the firm’s office there, and J. J. McPherson and W. G. McPherson, who manage the firm’s business at Gates, Tennessee, and in and near Earle in Cross county, Arkansas, and were brothers. The co-partnership was engaged in the saw mill business, mainly in…
1Opinion of the Court
Bunn, C. J.,
(after stating the facts.) This cause was considered by this court, and the judgment was affirmed orally. The affirmance was subsequently set aside for the purpose of considering a motion for a new bearing, the term being about to expire. The motion for rehearing assigns two grounds upon which the affirmance aforesaid should be set aside and the judgment reversed. The first is because the transaction involving the sale from- Jones & McPherson Bros., the defendants herein, to T. F. Lee and R. T. McPherson, the interpleaders, was in fact fraudulent as to the plaintiffs, Smith,…
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