Arkansas General Utilities Co. v. Smith

On April 19, 1932, Hopkins Wade, of El Dorado, Arkansas, filed his complaint in the Union Circuit Court against the Arkansas General Utilities Company, and S. E. Morgan, E. L. Pye, Jesse J. Craig, Citizens’ Light & Power Company, and Eepublic Power & Service Company. The plaintiff in the case alleged that there was a certain amount of indebtedness due him on a contract, and also alleged several assignments of the contract, but the complaint as filed was a suit at law on contract.

The Arkansas General Utilities Company, one of the defendants in said suit, filed a motion to require plaintiff to…