Simms v. Summers

Ryan, C.

John H. Wright, in the forepart of the year 1890, was the owner of no property but his homestead; nevertheless he greatly desired to embark in the retail merchandising business in Strang, the village wherein he resided. There was one serious obstacle to this very laudable ambition — a total want of capital. ' At different times he presented these matters to F. H. Higgins, a traveling salesman, who, in the interest of the Grimes Dry Goods Company, of Kansas City, Missouri, occasionally visited the village of Strang, situated in Fillmore county, Nebraska, and from him received…