Webb v. Wright

JUDGE WILLIAMS

delivered the opinion op the court:

The evidence strongly conduces to establish that Potts and Wright were partners in the mill business, and owed Boggs as a firm; that Wright sold his one fourth interest to Creed, who undertook, for Wright, to pay all the firm debts, including Boggs’; that Creed afterwards sold said fourth interest to Webb and Blevins, who undertook, in like manner, to pay all the firm debts, including the one due Boggs; that they also purchased of Potts another fourth interest, thus becoming owners of one half, and entered into a written covenant with him,…