Marathon Oil Co. v. Hadley

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

The Marathon Oil Company has appealed from a judgment denying it a recovery against defendants J. Hall Hadley and his mother, Mrs. L. M. Hadley, for the purchase price of gasoline, lubricating oil, and other materials used in the operation of automotive machines which was sold by the Transcontinental Oil Company to the defendant J. Hall Hadley and the account transferred and assigned by that company to the Marathon Oil Company. The petition was based upon an account of such sales, which was duly verified, and upon a contract in writing, signed by the defendant Mrs. L.…