Clinton v. Staples

TITUS, Judge.

Plaintiffs and defendant were financiers and promotor, respectively, of a shopping center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The venture eventually aborted and this appeal by defendant from an adverse judgment entered in a court-tried case hosted by the Circuit Court of Mississippi County is the apparent sole survivor of the undertaking.

Defendant had procured real estate options before the parties reached their “understanding” on the center. He later obtained additional options and contracts. On February 15, 1956, plaintiffs gave defendant $6,000 and defendant assigned his interest in…