Brown-Hinton Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Ware & Son

Appellant, a corporation, brought suit against appellees, a copartnership doing a general mercantile -business, to recover a balance alleged to be due upon ¡an account for goods, wares and merchandise sold appellees hv appellant.

Appellees answered, and alleged that there had been a composition and settlement of the demand whereby they had been discharged from individual liability for the debts of the copartnership. In support of this plea the following testimony was offered.

C. A. Goodwin testified that he was a vice president of a corporation which was one of appellees ’ largest creditors,…