Smith v. Carleton

This action was brought by J. Boss Smith and Helen G. Smith against L. C. Carleton, L. Y. Cook and Garnet M. Cook, wherein plaintiffs seek to recover from defendants $5,249.99 for money had and received, $2,500 punitive damages, and $96.47 for merchandise claimed to have perished due to the acts of defendants.

The complaint alleges that in April, 1946, defendants obtained a five-year lease on a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, known as “Cottage Kitchen”, and that in September of that year defendants did “wrongfully and unlawfully combine and conspire to unload said restaurant onto plaintiffs”.…