Adkins v. Smithfield Unit of Texas Honey Ball Ass'n

In the year 1923, or prior thereto, H. M. Means, demonstration agent for Tarrant county, Ireland Hampton, then the manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Fort Worth, J. W. Lee, and T. H. Adkins, formed a partnership to be operated under the trade-name of Texas Honey Ball Association. Lee was to» furnish to the farmers, through the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, the seed of a hybrid cantaloupe, a cross between the Honey Dew cantaloupe and the Cannon Ball cantaloupe. Means was to look after the planting and cultivation of the cantaloupes by the farmers. Hampton was to look after the advertising…