Flournoy & Epping v. Wooten
Supreme Court of Georgia
Witness. Evidence. Debtor and Creditor. Statute of Limitations. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1883. .Wooten and Taliaferro, as executors of C. B. Taliaferro, deceased, brought suit against Flournoy & Epping on a promissory note, for $1,482.20 principal.
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Witness. Evidence. Debtor and Creditor. Statute of Limitations. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1883. .Wooten and Taliaferro, as executors of C. B. Taliaferro, deceased, brought suit against Flournoy & Epping on a promissory note, for $1,482.20 principal. Defendants pleaded the general issue, a sm ill set-off, and an equitable plea of set-off which alleged, in brief, as follows: In 1814, the firm of Flournoy, Hatcher & Company, warehouse-men in Columbus, made advances to Taliaferro & Taliaferro, a firm composed of O. B. and C. F. Taliaferro, to buy cotton on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
These two cases were submitted and argued together.
In the first case the question .involved is whether B. T. Hatcher, who was offered.as a witness ir> behalf of Flournoy & Epping, was competent to testify as to a contract made between himself, as one of the firm of Flournoy & Hatcher, with C. B. Taliaferro, the said Taliaferro having died since the contract was made, in order to show that after the dissolution of the firm of Flournoy & Hatcher, that Taliaferro continued business with the firm of Flournoy & Epping on the same terms which he liad done with Flournoy & Hatcher.…
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