Joseph, Gaboury & Co. v. Southwark Foundry & Machine Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbard. Tbe present action was brought by the appellee corporation against the appellants, to recover for the building of certain cotton presses, and counted on the common counts.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbard. Tbe present action was brought by the appellee corporation against the appellants, to recover for the building of certain cotton presses, and counted on the common counts. The defendants pleaded the general issue, payment, and' that the defendants, E. B. Joseph and J. A. Gaboury, as a partnership, never made any contract with the plaintiff; and that if the presses were built by the plaintiff, they were built under a contract entered into between plaintiff and the Simplex Compress Manufacturing Company. The…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
Thfe suit is in assumpsit against appellants as a partnership. The material issues of fact presented by the pleadings were, whether the contract, the foundation of the suit, was made with the defendant part*51nersliip, or made with the Simplex Compress Manufacturing Company, a corporation formed after the dissolution of the partnership, and which succeeded it; and if made after the dissolution of the partnership, whether plaintiffs had notice that the partnership had been dissolved. There was evidence which tended to sustain the special plea of defendants, and there was evidence which tended to…
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