Metropolitan Paving Co. v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co.

The Metropolitan Paving Company, hereinafter called the Paving Company, brought this action against the defendants, the Brown-Crummer Investment Company, hereinafter called the Brown-Crummer Company, and the Fidelity National Bank & Trust Company of Kansas City, hereinafter called the Fidelity Company, for damages, alleging’ that the defendants fraudulently conspired to obtain and fraudulently obtained from the plaintiff the assignment of a contract which plaintiff had with the defendant the Brown-Crummer Company.

In July, 1919, the plaintiff Paving' Company, entered into contract with the…