Davis-Washington Co. v. Vickers

1. Whether or not a person 'who holds himself out to the world as an ostensible partner in a partnership of which he is not a member is bound to another person by virtue of this ostensible relation, he can not, by virtue of this relation, become bound for a partnership debt which he himself did not contract for, unless the creditor, when extending the credit, had notice of this ostensible relation, and believed that the person holding himself out as a partner was in fact a member of the partnership. Civil Code (1910), § 3157; American Cotton College v. Atlanta Newspaper Union, 138 Ga. 147 (4)…