Rittenhouse v. Bell

This suit was instituted in the Pulaski Circuit Court by the appellee Bell against appellant Rittenhouse. It was brought on the theory that Rittenhouse, as vice president of the Midland Land & Development Company, had undertaken to make a contract for the sale of certain lands, described in the complaint, amounting to about sixteen thousand acres; that Bell procured a purchaser upon the terms agreed, but when the purchaser was presented the Midland Land & Development Company refused to carry out the contract, which defendant had made on its behalf, and repudiated his authority to make same..

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