American Star Energy & Minerals Corp. v. Stowers

This case involves the statutory construction of provisions of the Texas Business Organizations Code as it pertains to the enforcement of a partnership obligation, previously reduced to judgment, against the individual partners of a general partnership. American Star Energy and Minerals Corporation obtained a judgment against S & J Investments, a Texas general partnership, based upon a contract dispute. When S & J Investments failed to satisfy that judgment, American Star brought suit against the partnership’s four general partners, Richard W. “Dick” Stowers, Richard W. Stowers, Jr., Frank K.…