Follain v. Lefevre

The defendant is sued for the price of groceries and merchandize, alleged to have been furnished at his special instance and request to the firm of Murphy & Margain, for the use of a saw mill 'at Lake Chicot, in the parish of St. Martin. It is further alleged, that the partnership, although carried on under the style of Murphy & Margain, was, in fact, at the time of the purchase of those goods, composed of John B. Murphy, L. Mar-gain, and the defendant, the latter being equally interested with Margain in dividing the profits and sustaining the losses. That the petitioners', being unacquainted…