Millspaugh Laundry v. First National Bank
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — lioN. J. F. Oliver, Judge. Action for tlie conversion of the name and good will of plaintiff. The jury allowed $355 damages, less a counter, claim of $105 for rent, and judgment was rendered against defendant for $250. 'Ihe defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
-One Millspaugh owned the machinery, tools, fixtures, and wagons used in operating a laundry in Sioux City, and in 1898 sold the same to E. II. Mann, from whom he took a note for $4,000 of the purchase price, secured by a chattel mortgage on the property. These papers were assigned to the defendant. Mann does not appear to'liave been successful in the venture, and in November of the same year surrendered the plant to Millspaugh. Thereupon the plaintiff company was organized, with a nominal capital stock of $4,500, divided into shares of $100 each, though but three were issued, for which no…
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