Sparks v. Flannery & Co.

Flannery & Company sued W. B. and O. G. Sparks-Jr., doing business under the firm name of W. B. & O. G. Sparks, upon an account for money advanced by the plaintiffs on cotton consigned to and sold by the plaintiffs on commission for account of defendants’ firm, such advances being made in payment of drafts drawn in the firm name. The transactions extended through a period beginning in September, 1892, and ending in February, 1894, and the accounts contained credits of amounts realized from time to time during that period from the sale of the cotton. The action was brought February 9, 1897. A…