Ellett v. . Newman

The plaintiffs, to-wit: Ellett, Drewry Co., Watkins, Cottrell Co., Slater, Myers Co., A. Oppenheimer, George Gibson, Jr., and W. M. Parrish, allege that during the year 1883, they each sold and delivered to the firm of P. Newman Co., at Enfield in Halifax county, divers goods, wares and merchandise, for none of which has payment been made; that about the year 1878, the defendant Charles Newman was engaged in a general merchandise business at the town of Whitakers, in Edgecombe county, North Carolina, and Littleton, in Halifax county, and about the 27th day of December, 1878, became much…