Opinion ID: 864731
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Text: ¶7. When the trial judge questioned Turner about who received payment for the jobs, Turner stated that Nash received the payments and was in control of all money paid toward the A.C.T. contracts. When asked how the jobs were handled, Turner testified about one job, the ICC Building in Fulton, which was an A.C.T. contract, stating “[i]t was 100 percent totally handled by Nash. We never got any checks, never did any work. I’m sure a lot of these materials went on that job.” Nash did not testify in his own defense, 5 For reasons not explained, the document that Turner offered in support of his testimony that “Nash” took over A.C.T. made no reference to A.C.T. or to Nash Plumbing or Roto-Rooter of North Mississippi, but instead was an agreement between Turner and a “Mississippi corporation” named A.C.T./Roto-Rooter. There is no evidence that A.C.T./Roto-Rooter has ever existed as a Mississippi corporation. 4 nor in defense of Nash Plumbing, and no evidence was presented to dispute this claim. ¶8. Shasco president Kenny Scott testified that Shasco opened the A.C.T. account in the latter part of 1997.He stated that invoices sent to A.C.T. in December, 1997 and January, 1998, were paid by A.C.T. Invoices dated February through April 1998 were left unpaid. Scott testified that his employee went to A.C.T. to find out why the invoices were not being paid, was told that Nash Plumbing was buying out A.C.T., and was directed to Nash Plumbing for collection of the debt6. Scott then personally visited Milton Nash in early July, 1998, at the Nash Plumbing office after calling several times with no response. The trial record supports Scott’s contentions that Milton Nash admitted to him during this meeting that the debt belonged to Nash Plumbing and that Nash not only promised to pay for any material or supplies ordered by A.C.T. but also gave Scott a check drawn on the Nash Plumbing account in the amount of $3,653.19 for seven invoices with dates in February and March of 1998. The invoices were for sheet metal material and supplies ordered on the A.C.T. account. According to Scott, Nash then told Scott he would “have some more money in a couple of weeks.” ¶9. The trial testimony supports the circuit court’s finding that Shasco supplied sheet metal and other materials to A.C.T.; the materials were being used on jobs managed and controlled by Nash Plumbing; Nash Plumbing was being paid directly for the jobs; and no money was going back into A.C.T., or to Shasco to pay for the supplies.