Drake v. Williams
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Osage District Court. Action by Williams against Drake and Ramskill, to recover a debt alleged to be due to plaintiff from a partnership consisting of plaintiff, defendants, and others, and which plaintiff claims was assumed by defendants. The pleadings, and the facts, fully appear in the opinion, infra. Williams had judgment for $133, at the January Term 1875 of the district court, and defendants bring the case here on error for review.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This case w;as commenced before a justice of the peace, and was appealed to the district court. In the district court the parties filed new pleadings, which are as follows:
[Court, and Title.) “The said plaintiff complains of the said defendants for that heretofore, to-wit, on the 1st day of January 1871 there existed a partnership composed of Henry Harris, James J. Davis, John M. Rees, Evan Williams and John .Williams, and called the ‘Kansas Coal Company;’ that said partnership continued to exist and do business until about the 31st of…
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