Miners' Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Jennings

Opinion by

JARMAN, C.

This was an ac- . tion to collect a reward offered by the 'defendants for the recovery of a quantity of cigarettes that had been stolen. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of said reward, on which judgment was rendered, and the defendants bring error.

L. D. Brooke was engaged in the mercantile business at Picher, Ottawa county, Okla., under the style of Miners’ Wholesale Grocery Company. On July 5, 1920, the store of the defendants was broken into and about 90,000 cigarettes were stolen. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants offered a…