Drucker & Brother v. Wellhouse & Sons
Supreme Court of Georgia
Partnership. Persons. Debtor and creditor. Assignments. Insolvency. Schedules. Fraud. Attorney and client. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. September term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. “Partners are called collectively a firm. Merchants and lawyers have different notions respecting the mature of a firm. Commercial men and accountants are apt to look upon a firm in the light in which lawyers .look upon a corporation, i. e. as a body distinct from 'the members composing it and having rights and obligations distinct from those of its members. Hence, in keeping partnership accounts, the firm is made debtor to each partner for what he brings into tlie common ¡stock, and each partner is made debtor to the firm for ¡all that he takes out of that stock.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Bennett v. WoolfolkSupreme Court of Georgia · 1854
- Ex parte HopkinsIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Harris v. VisscherSupreme Court of Georgia · 1876
- DeLeon v. Heller, Hirsch & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1886
- Anderson v. Pollard & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1878
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Render & Hammett v. Hartford Fire InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1925
- Moore & Jester v. Smith Machine Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
- State v. KieferSupreme Court of Iowa · 1917
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