Morton W. Southard and James L. Hansberger, Individually and as Partners Doing Business in the Firm Name of H & L Supply v. United States

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

The government below obtained a judgment against Morton W. Southard and James L. Hansberger, partners, doing business as H & L Supply, for $3,-459.44 and interest. The total is the sum of two invoices in the respective amounts of $228.13 and $3,231.31 for steel items sold by the War Assets Administration to someone in the Long Beach, California area in 1947.

The date of the formation of the partnership is obscure. H & L Steel Company, Inc., a California corporation, was formed apparently late in 1946. 1 Hans-berger and Southard seem to have been the principal ones in…