Ford v. Spivey

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Spivey sued Vernon and Campbell alleging that they owed him $1125 on the unpaid sale price of $3500 for a fruit stand business. Answering the complaint, Vernon and Campbell alleged that they had an earlier agreement to buy the business from one Ford and demanded that he be made a party. This was done and in his answer Ford set up a claim that he owned the business as a purchaser from Spivey and had contracted to sell it to Vernon and Campbell, and he claimed the right to all of the sale money over and above $2064.74, which he conceded he owed to Spivey. He also set up a…