Legal Opinion

Rinehart & Gore v. Rowland

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided June 2, 1919PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from Boone Chancery Court; Ben F. McMahcm, Chancellor; STATEMENT OF FACTS. J. Sam Rowland et al., plaintiffs below, appellees here, instituted this action in the circuit court of Boone County, Arkansas, against one C. E. Sarber, and Rinehart and Gore, defendants below. Rinehart and Gore are the appellants here.

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Appeal from Boone Chancery Court; Ben F. McMahcm, Chancellor; STATEMENT OF FACTS. J. Sam Rowland et al., plaintiffs below, appellees here, instituted this action in the circuit court of Boone County, Arkansas, against one C. E. Sarber, and Rinehart and Gore, defendants below. Rinehart and Gore are the appellants here. The plaintiffs alleged in their amended complaint that about the 20th of November, 1916, defendants entered into a contract with plaintiffs whereby defendants agreed and undertook, for a consideration of $1,350 cash, to issue to each of said plaintiffs one sixty-fourth interest…

1Opinion of the Court

WOOD, J.,

(after stating the facts). The record shows that the appellants filed in the court below the following motion: “That the defendants opposed the transfer of this cause from the law side of the docket and now and here object to the jurisdiction of the court to try said cause, wherefore defendants ask that the said action be dismissed.”

The record further shows that, when this motion came on to be heard, the parties agreed in open court “that this cause was transferred to this court by order of the Boone Circuit Court over the objection of the defendants.”

The record thus shows that the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Joyce v. McCordSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1916
  2. Dillon v. McAlisterSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1882

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Thomas v. McElroySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1967
  2. Midwest Bus Lines, Inc. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1968
  3. Ware v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
  4. McCulla v. BrownSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1929
  5. Sternberg v. StrongSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1923

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