4 La. 31 | La. | 1832
The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court, delivered by
This suit is brought by the endorsers of a promissory note, purporting to have been made by the defendants, negotiable in the office of discount and deposite of the Bank of Mississippi, at Gibson Port. The .plaintiffs allege, that after protest, they were obliged to pay and take up said note for the benefit of the makers, and claim from them the amount, with interest and costs of protest, «fee. They state the company sued to consist of A. W. Breedlove and J. W. Breedlove, of New-Orleans, and pray judgement against them, in solido. Judgement by default was rendered against the former, which was afterwards made final, and about which there is no dispute. The latter denied that he ever was a partner of the assumed firm of A. W. Breedlove & Co., or in any manner liable for debts contracted under that social name. The court below, after hearing the evidence, sustained the plea of J. W. Breedlove, and as to him dismissed the suit, from which dismissal the plaintiffs appealed.
The evidence of the case does not leave the fact of the appellee having been or not a partner of the house of A. W. Breedlove <fc Co. free from doubt. There is no positive proof that he ever acknowledged himself to be such. The most weighty evidence, in favor of the affirmative of this fact, is contained in the letters of correspondence between the brothers A. W. &s J. W. Breedlove, which had relation to the concerns of the firms of Bedford, Breedlove <& Robeson, and Breedlove & Robeson, in New-Orleans, and that of A. W. Breedlove <& Co., in Gibson Port, <&c. Perhaps a just grammatical interpretation of this correspondence, i. e., of
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the judgement of the court below be affirmed with costs, &c.