Calvert v. Idaho Stage Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Douglas: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. This is an action by James Calvert against the Idaho Stage Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Utah.
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Appeal from Douglas: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. This is an action by James Calvert against the Idaho Stage Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Utah. The complaint contains three causes of action,—first, for money paid at the request and for the use and benefit of the defendant; second, for a balance alleged to have been found due the plaintiff on an account stated for moneys advanced and disbursed by him as agent of the defendant in managing its mail routes in Oregon and Washington; and, third, for services rendered to the defendant as such agent from the first day of April,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Bean.
To maintain the issues on its part, the defendant, after showing that the business for which it was organized, and in which it was and is engaged, is contracting for and carrying United States mails, express, and passengers, and subletting mail contracts, produced and submitted evidence tending to show that in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the plaintiff and Mr. Salisbury, the president and general manager of defendant, entered into a contract by which it was agreed that the defendant should bid on certain mail routes in Washington and Oregon, soon to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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