Stewart & Son v. Brown & Co.

The issue upon which this case turned in the court below was whether or not two of the defendants,. Brown and Franklin, both of whom had been personally served, were individually liable, as members of a partnership doing-business under the name of “Brown & Co.,” for the payment of an account due by that firm to Stewart & Son. The plaintiffs, in connection with other evidence bearing upon this issue, introduced a writing, signed Brown and Franklin, reciting that they and one R. A. Doran had “associated together, using the-name and style of Brown & Co., for the purpose of buying and selling…