Pitts v. Cypress Shingle & Lumber Co.

The Cypress Shingle & Lumber Company instituted this action in the county court to recover of E. M. Pitts $975 alleged to be due and owing from defendant to plaintiff. It was alleged that defendant, one of the stockholders and former president of the company, while in charge of the plant from August 10th to about December 21, 1910, appropriated to his own use money, being the proceeds of shingles manufactured and sold, for which he had failed and refused to account. Defendant denied generally and pleaded in offset certain indebtedness from the plaintiff to him. A trial was had with a jury…