Supreme Court of Arkansas June 10, 1957, 5-1296 (Cummings v. Lord’s Art Galleries)

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This litigation involves an auction sale of a diamond ring. Appellant, Cummings, a non-resident, while a visitor in Hot Springs, Arkansas [on July 1, 1954] and attending an auction of appellee’s, made a hid of $900 on a ring which contained a 2.28 carat diamond surrounded by four smaller diamonds “weighing 10 points”.