Cockrell v. Williams

In order to get at the matter in controversy in this appeal it is necessary first to set out the petition in the case, which, omitting caption, reads as follows:

“Plaintiff sued defendants and states that on all the dates hereinafter set forth, the defendant, Kansas City Terra Cotta Co., was and is a corporation, organized and existing according to law, and engaged in Kansas City, Missouri, in the manufacture of terra cotta; that A. F. Brooker was* president of said corporation, and that A. F. Brooker and C. M. Williams were stockholders and financially interested in the same.

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