Billie Mclemore v. J.W. Powell & Raymond Nelson

CRAWFORD, Presiding Judge, W.S.

This is a suit to collect a debt owing from a purchase of cattle. Defendant, J.W. Powell (Powell), appeals the judgment of the trial court finding that there was an agency relationship between Powell and his co-defendant, Raymond Nelson (Nelson), and awarding the plaintiff, Ralph McLemore (MeLemore), a judgment against Powell in the amount of $9,867.98. 1

In November 1987, MeLemore sold Nelson sixty-seven head of cattle at $350.00 a head. Nelson then sold forty-five head of the cattle at a cattle auction in McLemore’s name, and the checks in payment for the…