Adams v. Hicks

Devine. Associate Justice.

J. E. Adams, the appel*241lant, brought this suit against W. H. Hicks, appellee, for the sum of one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars, which he asserted was due him on a contract entered into between them on the first day of June, 1872, the stipulation of the contract being that plaintiff, as “post trader at Fort Griffin,” was to permit defendant to receive all the profits of the concern,save three hundred dollars per month, which plaintiff was to receive; that defendant was to be at all the expense, and furnish, individually, all the stock and capital requisite to…