Culp v. Steere

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was an action brought in the district court of Mitchell county on March 16,1886, by Solon Steere, and a large number of other plaintiffs, as copartners under the name and style of “The Asherville Breeders7 Association,77 against C. W. Culp, to recover damages resulting from the purchase and sale of an alleged worthless horse. The material portion of the petition, so far as any question is raised upon it, reads as follows;

“That in the month of March, 1884, said plaintiffs bought of said defendant one dark chestnut stallion, known as…