Jackson v. Oliver C. Steele Mfg. Co.

J. L. Jackson, Jr., as trustee in bankruptcy, brought this suit in the district court of Wichita county, Tex., against Oliver C. Steele, doing business under the name and style of Oliver C. Steele Manufacturing Company, to recover the sum of $4,600 paid to-him upon a debt owing to said Steele, which debt was in the sum of $17,000. An instructed verdict in favor of the defendant was returned by the jury, and judgment rendered in his favor by the trial court. Appeal was taken therefrom by plaintiff to this court.

The evidence clearly shows that the Wichita School -Supply Company, a corporation,…