Tillis v. Smith Sons Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Gaston Gunter. Action by tbe Smith Sons Lumber Company, a corporation, against Richard Tillis. .Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Gaston Gunter. Action by tbe Smith Sons Lumber Company, a corporation, against Richard Tillis. .Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Tbe following are tbe counts referred to : (5) “Plaintiff claims of defendant tbe sum of $100,000 as damages, for that-, to wit, on tbe 29th day of July, 1908, one W. T. McGowin, one E. L. McGowin, and I. E. Boyette bad been' negotiating with plaintiff for tbe purchase of certain of its assets consisting of a large amount of real and personal property at and for the sum of $200,000; that pending said…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Smith Sons Lumber Company, a corporation, sued Tillis in an action of deceit. The cause being submitted to a jury on counts 5, 7, 8, and 9, plaintiff recovered judgment. The facts averred in the com-plaint show a tripartite negotiation for the sale of a sawmill property. Two McGowins and one Boyette, acting together, and to be hereafter for brevity referred to-as the McGowins, proposed to purchase the mill property from plaintiff, and to pay the price in money and in large part by the delivery of certain bonds and preferred stocks of the Norfolk & Southern Railway Company, a Virginia…
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