Lyle v. Hunter Company

Hunter & Company brought suit in the Civil Court of Pulton County against Morgan Sutton, R. Means Davis, John P. Lyle, and C. E. Hornsby Jr., individually and doing business as Morgan Sutton & Company, a partnership. Both Lyle and Davis, separately and individually, filed pleas of no partnership. This issue was tried, along with the case, on its merits, by the trial judge without the intervention of a jury. The judge entered an order finding against these pleas and against all the defendants for the full amount of the account on which the action was based. Davis and Lyle sued out separate…