Travers v. Jennings

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Pope. S. W. Travers, of Richmond, Virginia, dealing in commercial fertilizers, had shipped $1,702 of fertilizers to W. A. Jennings, J. S. Setzer, James A. Thomasson and John H. Austin, doing business as merchants in the city of Greenville, S. C., under the firm name of Jennings, Setzer & Co., in the early months of 1891, in pursuance of a contract for that purpose between such parties. Two notes, each for $851, maturing respectively the 1st and 15th days of December, 1891, were executed by such firm to the plaintiff, Travers, therefor. J.…