Kempner v. Rosenthal

HENRY, Associate Justice.

A. Goldstein and G. Melasky were partners, conducting business under the firm name of Goldstein & Melasky. On the 4th day of August, 1887, the firm was insolvent and owed debts to both appellant and appellee. The title to the land in controversy was in the name of G. Melasky, who was then in Hew York, and had given to his partner Goldstein a power of attorney to “sell a tract of land consisting of 113 acres, in Cooke County, Texas, near Gaines-ville, known as the Hall land, in the old Peery addition, for such price and on such terms as to him shall seem meet,” etc.

The…