Odell v. Brown

Lazarus M. Brown .and George H. Weaver were partners in the mercantile business in the city of Lafayette, Indiana; and about the first of January, 1857, they dissólved that partnership, Brown selling out to Weaver, who took the assets, and was to pay all the debts, including one of near 3,000 dollars to Brown, the retiring partner.

Eayly in the following spring, Weaver formed a partnership with Jerome B. Odell, to be carried on in Kansas, Weaver putting in as his portion of the capital stock, the goods he had on hand as successor to the firm of Weaver § Brown. Subsequently to these…