78 Ga. 776 | Ga. | 1887
The original action was brought by the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company against the defendant, in which it was alleged that certain cord-wood, the property of Win. H. Holcombe, upon the line of road of the defendant,
Holcombe testified that it was his wood; that he and a man named Stansell were in partnership under the name of Wm. H. Holcombe & Co.; that their arrangement was that he should furnish all the money for the wood purchased along the line of the road, and it was to be his wood until it was sold, and they were to divide the profits of the sale between them. Stansell testified to the same thing. While they were on the stand, the defendant, on cross-examination, brought out that on a former suit, brought by Wm. H. Holcombe & Go., a firm composed of Wm. H. Holcombe and Stansell, they had
So we reverse the judgment of the court below granting the nonsuit.