Simmons Hardware Co. v. Peck

Plaintiff, a wholesale merchant at St. .Louis, sold and delivered goods to Peck and Clifford, partners doing a retail business at Columbia, and afterward sued and recovered judgment against Peck in the sum of $159.58, on an account for goods so delivered and which were not paid for. Peck appealed and contends that the firm was dissolved and that he retired from the business on November 4,1912, prior to the delivery of all of the goods in controversy except a shipment amounting to $25.50, received by *87the firm before its dissolution. Further he insists that he gave plaintiff immediate written…