Newman v. Ruby

POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:

This is a writ of error to a judgment for $111.83, rendered by the circuit court of Wetzel County, in an action commenced before a justice of the peace, which was carried up to the circuit court by appeal. The principal sum recovered is one hundred dollars, which the fifteen plaintiffs claim to have paid for the use of the defendant, A. C. Ruby, as a part of the sum which he agreed to contribute in a partnership, or joint ownership, venture, in respect to the purchase and handling of a stallion in 1898. At that time, one Tracy, an agent of Fletcher & Coleman, of Wayne,…