Purdom v. Shock

This was an action upon a series of contracts relating to the sale and purchase of certain general warrants of the Chickasaw Nation, commenced by the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against the plaintiffs in error, defendants below. Hereafter, for convenience, the parties will be designated “plaintiff” and “defendants” respectively, as they appeared in the trial court.

In addition to pleading the original contract in writing the plaintiff set up an oral contract by the terms of which Purdom, one of the defendants, agreed to execute certain promissory notes in connection with and…