Weekes Grain & Live Stock Co. v. Ware

This action' was instituted by the Weekes Grain & Live Stock Company, plaintiff, to recover from defendants damages in the sum of $23,062.50 for breach of a contract of agency. Plaintiff was a domestic corporation, and filed its petition in its corporate name after its charter had been forfeited for nonpayment of the occupation fee imposed by statute. Laws 1909, ch. 25. Later William B. Weekes and Edgar T. Weekes, as managing officers, attempted to become plaintiffs by means of an amended petition containing, in addition to the facts originally pleaded, allegations that: “The charter of the…