Shorter, Papot & Co. v. Hightower

Tbe suit being by tbe appellee, Hightower, against the appellants, Shorter, Papot & Co., the defendants objected to the introduction of an account against Shorter, Papot, Bradley & Co. as evidence. The objection was overruled.

The complaint recites, that “ the plaintiff claims of the defendants, a firm composed of John Gill Shorter, S. N. Papot, W. T. Walthour, and T. I. Perkins, who are the survivors and successors of Shorter, Bradley, Papot & Co., a firm composed of the said individuals and one Bradley, who has retired from the same, and who is not sued in this action, one hundred dollars,…