Jacobson v. Poindexter
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. 1. The first instruction for defendant should have been given. 1 Parsons on Partnership, p. 122. 2. It was error to refuse the second. 1 Qa., J¡,18; Am. Dec., 665; Meigs, 508; 33 Am. Dec., 161; 1 Met., 193 ; 35 Am. Dec., 358. 3. Expenses and time of plaintiff not allowed as damages. 31/, Ark., 181}..
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APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. 1. The first instruction for defendant should have been given. 1 Parsons on Partnership, p. 122. 2. It was error to refuse the second. 1 Qa., J¡,18; Am. Dec., 665; Meigs, 508; 33 Am. Dec., 161; 1 Met., 193 ; 35 Am. Dec., 358. 3. Expenses and time of plaintiff not allowed as damages. 31/, Ark., 181}.. Instruction No. 1 properly refused; there was no evidence to support it. 8 Ark., 31}6.; 5 Ib.,61; 38 lb.,733; Story on Agency, sec. 39. So was the second. There was no proof of agency, and no proof that selling of hides was in…
1Opinion of the CourtSjiith, J.
Poindexter brought replevin against Jacobson for the recovery of certain hides. The plaintiff lived in Perryville, but had established a butcher shop in Morril-ton, of which he had put one Collins in charge. In the course of the business a number of hides had accumulated. The plaintiff and Collins went to the defendant’s store in Morrilton and proposed to sell him these hides. There was evidence tending to prove that in the course of this interview they spoke of the hides as “our hides,” from which Jacobson inferred they were partners. Jacobson made an offer, which was declined, but, upon…
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