Williams v. Soutter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Scott District Court. Williams sued Soutter & Drew for the price of goods sold and delivered from August 1st to November 4th, 1854. Williams had previously been in partnership with one Taylor, and part of th.e goods were sold and delivered by this firm of Williams & Taylor. On the 4th of October, 1854, Williams bought out the interest of Taylor, including the goods notes and accounts of the firm.
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Appeal from the Scott District Court. Williams sued Soutter & Drew for the price of goods sold and delivered from August 1st to November 4th, 1854. Williams had previously been in partnership with one Taylor, and part of th.e goods were sold and delivered by this firm of Williams & Taylor. On the 4th of October, 1854, Williams bought out the interest of Taylor, including the goods notes and accounts of the firm. After this dissolution, Williams alone sold the remainder of the goods. The facts in relation to the defendants, are these: Soutter was in partnership with one Wray, at the time the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The better manner of treating this cause, will be to state the errors assigned, with the facts pertaining to each, separately, and thus to consider each by itself. The defendants’ assignments are first taken up.
The error first assigned by him, is the overruling his demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended petition. The plaintiff also assigns as error the overruling his amended petition. On account of the want of dates to the copies of some papers, and to the total absence of a transcript of any record *438entries, we are unable to determine whether these alignments do not relate to one and the same…
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