S. B. Locke & Co. v. Forrester

S. B. Locke & Company sued C. E. For-rester and others to recover damages for tbe breach of an implied warranty of quality of forty-four bales of cotton bought by the for.ro.er from the latter. The plaintiffs recovered judgment in the circuit court against the defendants, and upon appeal to tliis court the judgment was reversed because the lower court erred in holding that the undisputed evidence showed that S. B. Locke & Company was a partnership at the time of the purchase of the cotton.

One of the defenses to the case was that S. B. Locke & Company was a foreign corporation, and was doing…