Buckner v. Ries

The parties being at the State tobacco warehouse in St. Louis, where Buckner was about to sell a hogshead of tobacco at auction, entered into a partnership -in a sale of the tobacco, it being agreed between them that Buckner would give Ries one-half of the sum said tobacco might bring over the sum of twenty-five cents per pound, and Ries would give Buckner one-lialf of the sum said tobacco might sell for less than twenty-five cents per pound. The tobacco sold for less than twenty-five cents per pound, and this suit was brought for one-half of the difference between the sum it sold for and the…