Copeland v. King

A. L. King, the appellee, filed his suit in the circuit court of Jefferson county, law side of the docket, to recover of the appellant, defendant in the court below, a certain specified sum of money. This suit was upon the common counts. At or about the time defendant filed his plea of the general issue in the cause, the plaintiff filed a motion to transfer the cause to the equity side of the docket, assigning this ground: “For that said cause of action grew out of the partnership business of the firm of Copeland and King, said partnership being composed of E. R. Copeland and A. L. King; that…