Clayton Coal Co. v. King

This action was instituted by plaintiff (plaintiff in error), as assignee of the Marlatt Coal Company, to recover from the defendants (defendants in error) upon an alleged oral promise to pay the reasonable value of coal which plaintiff claimed the Marlatt Company delivered to two third party greenhouse companies, in which it was asserted the defendants were financially interested. By separate answers defendants denied the making of the promise alleged; admitted they had a financial interest in the greenhouse companies to the extent that both were stockholders in the Silver State Building and…