Purvis & Bertram v. Shaw

SPEER, Justice.

W. H. Shaw instituted this suit as plaintiff, against defendants C. H. Bertram and J. M. Purvis, as individuals and as partners composing the firm of Purvis & Bertram, to recover damages for the breach by defendants of an alleged contract by which plaintiff claims that he and defendants entered into an agreement for the furnishing by plaintiff of sand and gravel to enable defendants to construct two concrete bridges in Tom Green County, Texas.

The parties will bear the same designation by us as they carried in the trial court. It may be added that W. H. Shaw, Jr., was made a…