Carpenter v. Ingram
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Arkansas Circuit Court; George M. CitaplinE, Judge; statement by the court. This is an action in replevin, brought by appellant, W. N. Carpenter, against the appellees, I. W. Ingram, C. M. Farmer, John G. Quertermous and the Carpenter Investment Company, the latter being a domestic corporation, for recovery of a lot of law books and office furniture situated in the office of the defendant corporation in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
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Appeal from Arkansas Circuit Court; George M. CitaplinE, Judge; statement by the court. This is an action in replevin, brought by appellant, W. N. Carpenter, against the appellees, I. W. Ingram, C. M. Farmer, John G. Quertermous and the Carpenter Investment Company, the latter being a domestic corporation, for recovery of a lot of law books and office furniture situated in the office of the defendant corporation in Stuttgart, Arkansas. A complaint, affidavit and replevin bond were filed by the plaintiff, and summons and an order of delivery were duly issued. All four of the defendants…
1Opinion of the Court
McCulloch, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The court erred in its reasons stated for refusing to enter judgment against the defendant corporation. The allegations of the complaint were, in the absence of a motion to require them to be made more specific, sufficient to warrant a judgment thereon. The corporation is named in the complaint as one of the defendants, and it is therein alleged that the property “is now in the office of the Carpenter Investment Company, and is being illegally held by I. W. Ingram, C. M. Farmer and John G. Quertermous-, who are three out of four owners of the Carpenter…
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