Kitchen, Whit & Co. v. Powell & Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Reversing.

The appellant is a wholesale grocery corporation of Ashland, and James Powell and Riley Ramey were partners under the firm name of Powell & Company, with a country store in Pike County. The store originally be*93longed to Mart Ratliff, but some time in 1909, Riley Ramey bought an interest with Ratliff. A month or so afterwards, perhaps in June, Jim Powell bought an interest in the firm and Ratliff retired. The witnesses do not give the dates of these changes in the firm, but all the matters involved in the controversy occurred during the year 1909.…