Rives v. James

Appellee sued appellant to recover the sum of $900, being the amount of lease money delivered to appellant, and alleged to be wrongfully withheld from ap-pellee and converted to appellant’s own use and benefit. The ease was tried by the court without a jury, and judgment was rendered for said amount against appellant. The court properly overruled all exceptions urged by appellant.

The trial court’s findings of fact are substantially as follows:

“That appellant employed P. P. Doss as his agent to sell said land; that subsequently P. P. Doss, as agent for appellant, negotiated a sale of same to…