Nancarow v. Nelson

The petition states that J. Nelson & Co. are indebted to the plaintiff, in the sum of $7449, 02, for goods sold and monies lent to them, according to an annexed account, and that the defendant is the only member of the partnership known to the petitioner.

The answer denies all the facts stated, and particularly the existence of a firm of J. Nelson & Co. of which the defendant is, or ever was a member.

There was judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed.

The evidence is all written, and accompanies the record.

S. Kidmore deposed that he was in Louisville in the summer of 1817, when…