McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Stires

Kirkpatrick, C.

This is an action for money had and received, brought by J. D. Stires, defendant in error, against the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, plaintiff in error, in the district court for Platte county. The petition alleged that in January, 1896, one Stores was indebted to one M. E. Beerbower in the sum of $300 on a certain lease executed by Beerbower to Stores upon a farm in Nance county belonging to the former; that on 'June 26, 1896, Beerbower, for a valuable consideration, assigned the lease and all of her rights thereunder to Stires, Stires ever since then remaining the…