Arkansas Valley Bank v. Esser

Esser had a verdict and judgment against the bank for $1,700 in an action on an alleged contract for feeding cattle and the bank brings the case here for review and moves for supersedeas.

1. It will be convenient first to consider the claim that the complaint does not state a cause of action. It seems clear that it does. It alleges a written contract of great length and detail, set forth in full, from which it appears, with much else, that the bank had a mortgage on the cattle in question, then on the range, and agreed with plaintiff to gather and deliver them to him at the Newton ranch, and…