Moore v. Franklin

— The appellant brought this action for damages against the appellees, William M. Franklin, Adoniram J. Curtis, James F. Lawson, Willis Hickam, *345John N. Hurty, and James W. Archer; also Jacob Coble, not made a party to the appeal. The action was upon a contract, alleged to have been entered into between the parties, according to which the said defendants, who were engaged in forming a sanitarium company for the puropse of utilizing an artesian well at Spencer, in Owen county, agreed that if the appellant should take $5,000.00 of the capital stock of the company the board of directors would…