State ex rel. Spellman v. Parke-Davis & Co.

This is a suit upon an attachment bond. The defendant denies all liability thereon upon the ground that execution thereof was never authorized nor thereafter ratified. Upon a' trial' in the circuit court, the defendant’s demurrer to the evidence was overruled and judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $745, from which the defendant has appealed. To clearly understand the case it is necessary to make a full statement of the facts out of which it grew.

The defendant is now, and was at the times hereinafter mentioned, a Michigan corporation with a branch house in Kansas City,…