Goodrich v. Goldstein

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Conceding (but not deciding) that the advertisement inserted in the newspaper by A. Goldstein was libelous, and that the evidence adduced upon the trial sufficiently proved that this defendant and the other named defendants were partners as alleged, still we are of the opinion that the trial court’s judgment was in accord with the law of this State, expressed in Battle v. Pennington, 14 Ga. App. 58 (80 S. E. 298), in which case it was said: “It seems to us that this question [whether or not a partnership is liable for a tort committed by one of the…