Bow v. R. N. Oil Gas Co., Ltd.

An examination of the record in this case discloses that the R. N. Oil Gas Co. was an Idaho corporation with its principal place of business at Nampa, Idaho, formed to promote an oil venture in the state of Wyoming. Like so many of such companies formed for such purposes, it did not prove to be the bonanza expected. Plaintiff, J.F. Bow, had advanced money to the company and held four notes of the company; one for $300, one for $4,000, one for $3,000, and one for $700, amounting in all to $8,000. He testified that F.M. Willmorth, Burton W. Reeves, H.C. Stickler, H.C. Prescott, Chas. C. Tobias,…