Macauley v. Palmer

The plaintiff offered proof tending to show that he and one James A. Armstrong, now deceased, were copartners in the years 1863 and 1864 in Texas, while the same was in possession of the rebels during the late war,-in buying cotton and getting it through the rebel lines and selling the same either in Mexican or other markets; that 167 bales of cotton, the proceeds of which are the basis of this suit, were purchased by the plaintiff’s firm in October, 1863; that some time prior to the 28th of January, 1864, James A. Macauley, the deceased partner, made an arrangement with the defendants,…