Powell v. Batchelor

TRIMBLE, J. —

This suit is for damages for breach of a written contract concerning tbe assets, stock, and business management of a corporation called tbe Investment Security Company. The contract is dated December 17, 1909, and, by its terms, is between plaintiff and the defendant, D. L. Batchelor, but the *69petition charges that the latter was acting for himself and as agent for his-co-defendant, James P. Batchelor.

It seems that sometime in October, 1909, D. L. Batchelor, who for years had been the station agent for the Santa Fe Railroad at Las Vegas, New Mexico, came to Kansas City to look…