Dumartrait v. Gay
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action before the District Court for the parish of Avoyelles, Boyce, J., by Joseph A. Dumartrait, administrator of the estate of L. Lastrapes, and Alphonse Desmare and Henderson Taylor, surviving partners, against Appleton Gay and Charles D. Brashear.
1Opinion of the Court
Morphy, J.*
The plaintiffs, formerly commission merchants in New Orleans, claim $1479 72 on an account current for sundry *63advances made, and drafts accepted and paid by them for and on account of defendants who, they allege, were ordinary partners pursuing the business of. planting and cultivating cotton in the parish of Avoyelles, under the name and style of Gay & Brashear. They ask for judgment in solido against the defendants for the said amount; and, in the alternative, for a joint judgment. Gay, although legally cited, made no answer to the petition; hut Brashear, the other partner,…
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