Finley v. Stripling

We shall refer to plaintiff in error as plaintiff and to defendant in error as defendant, that being their status in the trial court.

Plaintiff sued defendant in the district court of Nacogdoches county to recover in the sum of $4,000. In view of the natúre of the suit and the action of the court in passing Upon the sufficiency of plaintiff’s petition, the petition will be set out in full.

Plaintiff’s petition, omitting formal parts, reads:

“2. That on and prior to the 1st day of June A. D. 1924, E. B. Norman & Co. were engaged in the cotton and grain brokerage business, and as such maintained…