STOKES v. REEVES

No. 15354.

245 F.2d 700 (1957)

A. E. STOKES and Estelle Stokes, Appellants, v. James H. REEVES and Isham P. Nelson, Jr., Doing Business as Reeves and Nelson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 31, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royce D. Sickler, Denver, Colo., Herbert W. Clark, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Fred N. Dugan, Billings, Mont., Yale B. Griffis, Dallas, Tex., for appellees.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and BONE and POPE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

These are appeals by A. E. Stokes and his wife Estelle Stokes from a judgment of the district court for the District of Montana, sitting in a diversity suit without a jury, holding Mr. and Mrs. Stokes jointly and severally liable for $2,000 plus $400 attorneys' fees to appellees Reeves and Nelson. Appellees, a firm of accountants in Dallas, Texas, are residents of Texas and appellants are and were when this action was commenced citizens of Montana...

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