Hill v. Ober Atwater & Co.

Plaintiff brought suit for a balance alleged to be due him from defendants for proceeds often bales of cotton, shipped'by him to them in October, 1868.

Defendants filed a general denial, and afterwards a supplemental answer, setting up the existence of a planting partnership in 1866 and 1867 between the plaintiff and G. H. Dunn, the furnishing of supplies thereto by defendants to the amount of $557 54, the assumption of the whole of this debt by plaintiff and the appropriation by his authorization of the proceeds of the ten bales in question to the payment of this account. They admit a balance…