Hughes, Valette & Co. v. Waldo & Hughes

By notarial act dated September 1st, 1856, Henry Passman, for the benefit of his minor son, who, says the act, “ has been acting in tho capacity of clerk in the hardware and ship chandlery store of Waldo <& Hughes, and assisted in taking an account of stock on the 1st day of July, 1856, and being acquainted with the general business and affairs of the said firm, and is consequently fully aware of the amounts of goods, moneys, bills receivable and book accounts belonging to the capital stock of the said firm, as well as with their liar bilities,” paid into the capital stock of the firm of…