Stifft v. Stiewel
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; Abe Stiewel brought suit against Charles S. Stifft, alleging that defendant was indebted to him in the sum of $4,300 and interest in payment of certain stock in the Bank of Little Rock alleged to have been purchased by plaintiff for defendant in September, 1902, and also that defendant owed $2,422 to the above-named bank upon an account, which had been assigned to plaintiff.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; Abe Stiewel brought suit against Charles S. Stifft, alleging that defendant was indebted to him in the sum of $4,300 and interest in payment of certain stock in the Bank of Little Rock alleged to have been purchased by plaintiff for defendant in September, 1902, and also that defendant owed $2,422 to the above-named bank upon an account, which had been assigned to plaintiff. Defendant denied any indebtedness to plaintiff, and pleaded the statute of frauds. There was a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $8,368.03.…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
First. Neither the original, nor what is designated as the “amended and substituted complaint” states a cause of action based on a contract of agency between appellant and appellee.
Treating this “amended and substituted” complaint as an amplification of the original, the first and second paragraphs thereof allege facts which show that between the 10th and 15th of September, 1902, appellee purchased stock of the Bank of Little Rock for which he paid $10,750.00; that on the 25th of September 1902, appellee, at the price he paid; “verbally” sold to appellant forty -per cent, of the stock,…
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