Altavista Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Lane

H. L. Lane brought suit against the Altavista Cotton Mills, Incorporated, to recover $40,000.00 for services rendered in financing the corporation. The jury-returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $25,000 on -which a judgment was entered in the Circuit Court of Campbell county for $25,000, with interest thereon from the 15th day of May, 1916, and costs. To that judgment a writ of error was awarded.

For convenience the parties will be designated as plaintiff and defendant with respect to their positions in the trial court.

In the summer of 1910, A. C. Hutchinson, a cotton mill man of…