Turnage v. Ritchie Grocer Company

The. issue is whether W. H. Turnage, A. D. Blakely, and Carl Lewis were partners in a grocery business; or, in the alternative, if it should be held that as between themselves there was no intention to create the relationship, is Turnage, because of conduct, estopped to deny his connection.

Blakely and Alvin Pitts, with $2,000 supplied by Turnage, went from Smackover, Arkansas, to Arp, Texas, and opened a place of business in February, 1938. Contract between the parties was in triplicate, but prior to trial all were lost. Evidence is abundant that if Turnage had rested his rights on the…