Chambers v. Ogle
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Madison Chancery Court, T. JEL. Humphreys, Chancellor; 1. Appellee, Flora Ogle, is not entitled to any part of the reward. Where a reward is offered for the capture and conviction, or for the capture, of an offender, the mere giving of information which enables others, acting independently of the informer, to make the arrest, is not sufficient to entitle the informer to share in the reward. 28 N. E. 1022; 122 Pia.
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Appeal from Madison Chancery Court, T. JEL. Humphreys, Chancellor; 1. Appellee, Flora Ogle, is not entitled to any part of the reward. Where a reward is offered for the capture and conviction, or for the capture, of an offender, the mere giving of information which enables others, acting independently of the informer, to make the arrest, is not sufficient to entitle the informer to share in the reward. 28 N. E. 1022; 122 Pia. St. 115. See, also, 50 Cal. 218; 191 111. 610, 61 N. E. 456, 85 Am. St. Rep. 278; 24 Wis. 278. 2. The intervener, Seaton, in what he did was acting as the agent of…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
This action is one to recover the amount of a reward offered for the arrest and conviction of certain criminals. It was instituted hy Mrs. Flora Ogle, one of the appellees, against the First National Bank of Huntsville, Arkansas, and certain parties to whom the bank had paid the reward. Appellant, who was a police officer in the .State oí Oklahoma, and G. W. Seaton, a police officer in the State of Missouri, separately intervened claiming the amount of the reward or a portion thereof.
The bank was burglarized on the night of June 13, 1912, and a large sum of money was taken. The bank published…
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- Marsh v. Wells Fargo & Co. ExpressSupreme Court of Kansas · 1913
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