Petway v. Loew's Nashville Knoxville Corporation

This is a suit to recover $8000 damages for the breach of a contract by a motion picture company to sell 40,000 admission tickets, at a discoiurt, to the plaintiff, Petway, to be resold by him by means of a contest.

The defendants filed pleas in abatement and demurrers which were overruled, and later pleaded the general issue of not guilty and filed a special plea denying that they had entered into a contract with' the plaintiff.

The case was tried by the judge and a jury.

At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendants moved the court for peremptory instructions in their favor on the…