Faga & Zanders v. Hemphill
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal fropi Dallas District Court. — Hon. J. H. Henderson, Judge. This action was brought to recover an amount claimed to be due the plaintiffs from the defendants upon an account which arose in the business of purchasing and selling live stock. There was a cross-petition in equity filed by the defendants in which they demanded an accounting of all the transactions between the parties.
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Appeal fropi Dallas District Court. — Hon. J. H. Henderson, Judge. This action was brought to recover an amount claimed to be due the plaintiffs from the defendants upon an account which arose in the business of purchasing and selling live stock. There was a cross-petition in equity filed by the defendants in which they demanded an accounting of all the transactions between the parties. The cause was fully heard upon the merits and it was found that • the plaintiffs were indebted to the defendants in the sum of one thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-three cents, for which sum…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrook, J.
The plaintiffs, Naga & Zanders, are a copartnership doing business as general merchants and buyers of live stock at Adair in this state. The partnership had been doing that business at Adair for several years prior to March 4, 1886. Nor some time before that the defendants, C. & N. Hemphill, who reside at DeSoto, had been competing with the plaintiffs in the purchase and shipment of five stock at Adair.
On the fourth day of March, 1886, an arrangement was made between the parties by which the plaintiffs gave up and discontinued the business in favor of the defendants. By this arrangement the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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