Aultman, Miller & Co. v. Carr

LIG-HTFOOT,

Chief Justice.—This suit was brought by appellant, Aultman, Miller & Co., against appellees, C. C. Carr and T. C. Morris, to recover a carload of buggies, upon the ground that they were procured from appellant by T. C. Morris, a merchant at Mount Pleasant, under a contract of purchase and under the representation that the latter was solvent; that Morris made false statements of his financial condition; that he ivas insolvent when the goods were ordered, never intended to pay for them, and on the day of their arrival turned them over to C. C. Car as trustee, in fraud of appellant’s…