Austin v. J. W. Lewis & Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Ferguson, J., at August Term, 1911, of UNION. The facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion by Mr. Chief Justice Ciarle.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
This action was begun before a justice of the peace in Union County to recover $80. The defendants as recited in the warrant are J. W. Thomas and J. W. Hasty, both of Union County, and J. W. Lewis of Mecklenburg County.
The plaintiff filed a complaint before the justice reciting that he had sold to the defendant Lewis two car-loads of lumber at the sum of $12.50 per thousand, and delivered the same to said Hasty and Thomas for the said Lewis, to whom it was duly shipped; that the said Lewis had received the same and had paid the plaintiff through said Hasty and Thomas $224.01, leaving a…
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