Pomroy & Co. v. Parmlee
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Court. The plaintiffs sued the defendant for money had and received, to their use. Their petition also sets out that they, doing business in Chicago, Illinois, “ in buying and selling produce,” had a branch of the same in G-eneseo, in the same State, where the defendant was their agent or clerk, and conducted the business; that they placed in his hands money, salt, lumber, &c., with which he purchased produce and sent to them; and that in July,…
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Appeal from Scott District Court. The plaintiffs sued the defendant for money had and received, to their use. Their petition also sets out that they, doing business in Chicago, Illinois, “ in buying and selling produce,” had a branch of the same in G-eneseo, in the same State, where the defendant was their agent or clerk, and conducted the business; that they placed in his hands money, salt, lumber, &c., with which he purchased produce and sent to them; and that in July, 1855, at the close of' this arrangement, he was in arrear, and indebted to them in the sum of $2,220.22. They sued out a…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodwakd, J.
In order that the case may be better understood, we refer to that of Parmlee v. Leonard, ante, with which this is connected in its history, and where the transactions from which they arose, are more fully set forth.
The plaintiffs sued out a warrant, upon a criminal charge against the defendant; and at, or about the same time, a writ *144of attachment, in Scott county. These bear date, the first, the tenth; and the second, the fourteenth of August, 1855.
The first question which we will notice, is that made by the motion of the defendant, that the property attached be discharged, for the reason…
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