Clinton v. Gant

This is an appeal by Paul W. Gant, defendant below, from a decree of the Chancery Court at McMinnville, in favor of Darrell Walling, guardian for B. F. Clinton, incompetent, in the amount of $6,500.

These are the facts out of which this controversy arose: In the summer of 1948, defendant, Gant, who was working as a sales representative for Gulf Oil Company, learned the company contemplated a change in the Mc-Minnville distributorship then held by complainant, B. F. *244Clinton. Grant contacted Clinton, and after negotiations the two drew up different contracts, trying to arrive at terms suitable…