Meriwether-Graham-Oliver Co. v. Bank of Commerce

ROSS, District Judge.

Meriwether-Graham-Oliver Company is a corporation located at Memphis, Tenn., engaged in business as cotton factors and commission merchants. L. G. Dean‘is a resident of Shaw, Miss., and prior to and during the year of 1920 was the owner of considerable landed estate, both in Mississippi and Crittenden county, in the state of Arkansas; the lands in Arkansas being known as the Hudson, Fairchilds, Parker, and Boyd lands. S. L. House was a nephew of Dean, and during the year 1920 resided in Crittenden county, Ark., on the lands purchased by Dean. On the 20th day of March,…