Hecht & Imboden v. Caughron
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Clay Circuit Court, Western District. Hon. W. H. Cate, Circuit Judge. First — The unauthenticated copy of the record of an agreement between appellants and the Allendale Trust Company should have been excluded. The clerk had net attached his certificate or seal thereto. It was not proved to have been a true copy, or that it had ever been entered into or executed by appellants. 1 Oreenl. Fv., see. 501. Second — The first instruction was error.
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APPEAL from Clay Circuit Court, Western District. Hon. W. H. Cate, Circuit Judge. First — The unauthenticated copy of the record of an agreement between appellants and the Allendale Trust Company should have been excluded. The clerk had net attached his certificate or seal thereto. It was not proved to have been a true copy, or that it had ever been entered into or executed by appellants. 1 Oreenl. Fv., see. 501. Second — The first instruction was error. It assumed that if appellants received the product of the mill, they were liable for all wages of laborers. This was a summary way of…
1Opinion of the CourtCockrill, C. J.
The Allendale Trust Company was carrying on a saw mill business in Clay county, and b¿came indebted to the mercantile firm of Hecht & Imboden in the sum of $1,500. Wishing to secure this amount and advances thereafter, to be made in money or merchandise by Hecht & Imboden, an agreement was entered into between the parties by which the company transferred all of its stock of saw logs and timber, and certain accounts due them, to the merchants, and agreed to carry on the saw mill business for the sole benefit, and in the name of the merchants, until the amount secured should be liquidated; the…
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