Pulliam v. Cantrell

Jackson, Chief Justice.

Samuel Pulliam and Joab Lewis brougnt a rule against W. J. Cantrell,, an attorney at law, for money he had collected for J. H. Arthur, whose receipt on Cantrell Pulliam held by delivery from Arthur, and in which, it was alleged, Lewis, by an understanding with Arthur, and at the instance of Pulliam, became also interested. Cantrell’s defence was, that he paid all the money to Arthur with the consent of Pulliam, and that he knew nothing of Lewis’s interest. The jury found for Cantrell, and the presiding judge, approving the verdict, refused a new trial, and that refusal,…