Fenner v. Dobie

J. Frank Dobie, hereinafter called appel-lee, sued Fenner & Beane, a copartnership, and Charles E. Fenner and Earl H. Hulsey, two' of the partners, hereinafter called appellants, for $624.80, alleging that $93.55 was profit on certain cotton bought and sold by ap-pellee on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, through appellants as brokers; that prior to the cotton transactions appellee purchased from appellants a bond of the Consolidated Coal Company, which was deposited with appellants as collateral to the cotton transactions, and which on the date appellee demanded it was of the market value of…