M. C. Lee & Co. v. Wilmerding
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal irom Washington. Tried in 1875 before the Hon. I. B. McFarlane. The plaintiffs, Stowe & Wilmerding, were commission merchants in the city of Galveston. The defendants, M. C. Lee & A. J. Roberson, had carried on a mercantile business in Washington county under the firm name of M. G. Lee & Co., the capital being furnished by Roberson and the business managed by Lee.
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Appeal irom Washington. Tried in 1875 before the Hon. I. B. McFarlane. The plaintiffs, Stowe & Wilmerding, were commission merchants in the city of Galveston. The defendants, M. C. Lee & A. J. Roberson, had carried on a mercantile business in Washington county under the firm name of M. G. Lee & Co., the capital being furnished by Roberson and the business managed by Lee. The plaintiffs claimed that during the winter of 1871-2, at the special instance and request of M. C. Lee & Co., they had guarantied the payment ot certain sums of money falling due by that firm to various houses in…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
One of the controverted questions in this cause was, when was the firm composed of M. C. Lee and A. J. Roberson dissolved? In answer to an interrogatory which asked who composed the firm of M. C. Lee & Co. in the month of December, 1871, and the month of January, 1872, the witness answered that the firm was composed during those months of M. C. Lee and A. J. Roberson, and further answered that the firm so continued until the 15th of April, 1872. The latter part of the answer was objected to, because the answer was not responsive to the interrogatory, and the…
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