Ellis v. Pullman & Co.

Simmons, Chief Justice.

It. appeal's from the petition, that Ellis and his wife, having become heavily indebted as partners in a mercantile business, had themselves, together with a near kinsman, incorporated under the name of John Ellis Company, and in the corporate name bought goods from the petitioners and continued the business formerly conducted by the partnership, until they had discharged, out of the assets of the corporation, nearly all of their individual liabilities contracted as members of the partnership, and thereby rendered the corporation insolvent. The corporation then made an…