Adkins v. Hash

The only question presented by this record is, whether two non-residents, who for several years, had conducted a business as a partnership in Pearisburg, Virginia, can escape liability for a debt contracted by the manager of the business by merely proving that at the time the debt was contracted, the partners had obtained a corporate charter in West Virginia to conduct the same business in Virginia.

*88There is no substantial conflict in the evidence. G. L. and Rose Mary 'Hash were residents of Beckley, West Virginia. For seven or eight years prior to April,' 1946, they, as partners, had…