Stagal Oil Co. v. Bartholomew

MURRAY, Justice.

Appellee, George P. Bartholomew, instituted this suit on September 24, 1938, against Stagal Oil Company, a corporation, and Ramona Oil Company, also a corporation, seeking to recover the sum of $1,-193.12 upon an open account, and to recover further sums evidenced by notes as follows : $1,000, $300, $480, $805, $500.

The trial began to a jury, but at the close of the testimony Bartholomew made a motion for an instructed verdict in his favor, which was by the court granted and judgment rendered allowing a recovery in full upon each of the notes, and a partial recovery in the sum…