Citizens' National Bank v. Hine
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit upon seven promissory notes made by the firm ' of Hine & Longdon; brought, by appeal from the City Court of the city of Water bury, to the Superior Court in ' New Haven County. The facts were found by a committee and the case reserved for the advice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Pardee, J,
On January 24th, 1877, George Hine and ■Charles E. Longdon were and since 1874 had been partners in the business of making articles from rubber at Naugatuck in this state, under the various names of “ Hine & Long-don,” “Seamless India Rubber Works,” and “Seamless Rubber Company,” and were debtors to the plaintiff for borrowed money. On that day Hine, Longdon, George A. Alden, resident in Bostón, Massachusetts, and Joseph Banigan, resident in Providence, Rhode Island, entered at Boston into a written contract by which each agreed to become the owner of one quarter of the capital…
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