1 Rand. 300 | Va. | 1823
February 10.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence abundantly proves, that the debt which was the consideration of the note in the bill mentioned, was contracted with Hugh Donaghe by Joseph Williams, one of the partners of the firm of Joseph & Cumberland D. Williams, on the credit, and for the benefit of the firm. It did not cease to be a debt of the firm, by the said Joseph Williams giving his individual note therefor ; nor by his applying, to his individual use, some of the property