Hall & Ham v. Stone
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Baxley — Judge Lankford presiding. November 22, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtPottle, J.
The plaintiff delivered a lot of seed cotton to be ginned at a ginnerj’ which he claimed was being operated by the defendants as partners. While stored in the gin the cotton was destroyed by fire, and, in an action sounding in tort, the plaintiff recovered a verdict for its value, against both defendants as partners. The defendants are here upon a bill of exception's complaining of the overruling of their motion for a new trial. The motion contains many grounds, but, under our view of the law, there are two controlling questions: (1) Were the defendants partners? (2) Was the plaintiff…
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