Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad v. Hamilton

The defendant was sued for the sum of $281 25, tho'amount of certain installments due on his subscription to the stock of the railroad company. He confessed, in his answer to the petition, the plaintiff's demand, and called in warranty Sacie P. Gee, and prayed for judgment over against him for tho amount admitted to be due the plaintiff. The ground of the call in warranty is, the alleged promise of Gee, who was acting as tho agent of the company, to pay out the stocks, and take a transfer of the same to himself, at the time the subscription to the stock of the company was made by the…