Stewart v. Wright
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southwestern Division of the Western District of Missouri. This was an action by Wright against Joseph C. Stewart, James P. Stewart, and the Exchange Bank of Webb City, a Missouri corporation, to recover the sum of $5,100, alleged to have been obtained from him by false and fraudulent pretenses.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southwestern Division of the Western District of Missouri. This was an action by Wright against Joseph C. Stewart, James P. Stewart, and the Exchange Bank of Webb City, a Missouri corporation, to recover the sum of $5,100, alleged to have been obtained from him by false and fraudulent pretenses. A jury was waived, and the cause was tried by the Circuit Court, which made a ‘general finding, and rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Wright v. Stewart (C. C.) 130 Fed. 905.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
The charge in the petition is that the defendants, Stewart and the bank, acting in combination and concert with a number of swindlers and confidence men, obtained from the plaintiff, Wriglit, the sum of $5,100, and that it was accomplished by means of a pretended foot race, the result of which was secretly arranged in advance, and by inducing the plaintiff through various false pretenses to place his money temporarily in the possession of one Boatright, the leader of the swindlers, who pretended to be acting as a stakeholder in the betting,-and who promised to return the…
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