Independent School District v. First National Bank

Numerous issues were raised in the district court. They are set out at considerable length in the abstracts and arguments. A number of assignments of error and brief points are made. As we view the ease, there is one proposition which is controlling. This being so, we shall refer to other matters as briefly as may be.

The petition declares upon an express contract for the purchase by the defendants, of $475,000 worth of plaintiff’s school bonds, which contract, it is claimed, was made about November 17, 1919, by its acceptance of a verbal proposition made by one "Wickham, acting as the…