Courts v. Jones

Harry S. Jones filed suit against Courts & Company, a partnership, composed of R. W. Courts, R. W. Courts Jr., M. C. Courts, and W. F. Broadwell, and against each of said persons individually. The plaintiff alleges, that on December 3, 1937, he and the defendants entered into a contract whereby the defendants became his selling agents; that the subject-matter of the agency contract was the sale of seventy-five shares of common stock of the Coca-Cola Company; that the plaintiff was the owner of the stock; that on December 3, 1937, acting under the powers granted to them in thé agency contract,…