Wilson's adm'r v. Barclay's ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
JBy an article of agreement under their hands and seals, bearing date the 5th of September 1836, Alexander T. Barclay and Dr. Hugh Wilson, of the county of Rockbridge, and Wm. Patton and Thomas Mathews, of the county of Greenbrier, entered into a partnership for conducting a mercantile business in the town of Lewisburg, under the name and style of Mathews, Paxton & Co., the business to be managed by Mathews and Paxton, and to continue for five years.
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JBy an article of agreement under their hands and seals, bearing date the 5th of September 1836, Alexander T. Barclay and Dr. Hugh Wilson, of the county of Rockbridge, and Wm. Patton and Thomas Mathews, of the county of Greenbrier, entered into a partnership for conducting a mercantile business in the town of Lewisburg, under the name and style of Mathews, Paxton & Co., the business to be managed by Mathews and Paxton, and to continue for five years. Each of the parties was to put in a capital of $3,000. At the end of the partnership, all debts or losses to be first paid; then •the amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Eoekbridge county, in a suit instituted by the executor of Alexander Barclay, deceased, against the administrator and heirs of Hugh Wilson, deceased. It appears that upon the dissolution of-the firm of Ma*539thews, Paxton & Co., in the year 1843, of which plaintiff’s testator and defendants’ intestate were members, two bonds amounting in the aggregate to $1,038.56, with interest thereon from their respective dates, were assigned to plaintiff’s testator, as a part of the capital stock invested by him in said partnership. These bonds , f . . .…
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