Gentry v. Alley

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

This litigation is over microfilm copies of abstract indices of real estate records in Marion County.

Factual Back Ground. Most of the facts are not in dispute and are, substantially and briefly, as here set out.

Appellee, Don Alley, had for some years prior to 1949 been engaged in the abstract business in Baxter County, during which time one of the defendants, Nellie Cooper, had also been likewise engaged in the same county. In June of said year Alley bought a complete set of abstract books or, as sometimes referred to, abstract indices in the adjoining county of…