Page v. Haas Bros. Packing Co.
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Bernex. Detinue by the Haas Bros. Packing Company against Harvey B. Page and Boy Page. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant Boy Page appeals. The suit seemed to be for the fixtures and furniture connected with a meat or market business located at a certain point in Mobile. Ed Haas was secretary and treasurer of the Haas Bros.
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Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Bernex. Detinue by the Haas Bros. Packing Company against Harvey B. Page and Boy Page. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant Boy Page appeals. The suit seemed to be for the fixtures and furniture connected with a meat or market business located at a certain point in Mobile. Ed Haas was secretary and treasurer of the Haas Bros. Packing Company, a corporation, and as such entered into an agreement with Harvey Page to buy for Mm the St. Louis Street Market, and in pursuance of the agreement paid $850 for same. He testified that…
1Opinion of the Court
PELHAM, J. —
The suit being in detin tie between Haas Bros. Packing Company, a corporation, appellee, as plaintiff, and II. P. Page and Boy Page, as defendants, the testixxxony of the witness Ed Haas as to the oral agreement made by him as manager of, and acting for, the plaintiff, with one of the defendants (H. B. Page), to the effect that the personal property in suit was purchased from a third party by Page acting as the agent of the plaintiff and that it was to remain the property of the plaintiff, with the privilege in Page of paying the plaintiff the purchase xnoney furnished by it and…
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