Texas Supreme Court October 27, 1882, Case No. 1086 (Shryock & Rowland v. Latimer)

Stayton, Associate Justice.

The property in controversy originally belonged to J. D. Latimer, one of the defendants in error, who in copartnership with one Cully carried on in a store-house on the lot a mercantile business until about the close of the year 1876, at which time he became financially embarrassed and ceased to do business as a merchant; since that time he has never conducted on the