First Nat. Bank of Winfield v. Perfected Curing & Storage Co.

*738The following is the opinion of

Hodges, J.,

in the Court of Civil Appeals:

While there was an apparent effort to organize the Perfected Curing & Storage Company as a common-law trust, it is conceded that both it and the former joint-stock company, known as the Perfected Curing & Storage System, were general partnerships. That being true, the partners were, by operation of law, jointly and .severally liable for all the valid partnership debts. In order to escape that legal personal liability in this instance, it devolved upon Cohen, the appellant, to prove either that under the provisions of the…