Beatty v. Wray
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an amicable action of account render, in which Robert Wray as administrator of the estate of E. Kirkpatrick, deceased, was plaintiff, and Robert Beatty, defendant. Robert Beatty and Edward Kirpatrick were general and equal partners in the mercantile business at the time of the death of Kirkpatrick, about 1846. They had been in business for several years.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an amicable action of account render, in which Robert Wray as administrator of the estate of E. Kirkpatrick, deceased, was plaintiff, and Robert Beatty, defendant. Robert Beatty and Edward Kirpatrick were general and equal partners in the mercantile business at the time of the death of Kirkpatrick, about 1846. They had been in business for several years. About four years after the death of Kirkpatrick, this amicable action was entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county, for the purpose of settling an account of the business…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Gibson, J.
This case presents so few salient points that it is difficult to deal with it; yet it rests on principles and analogies that may conduct the mind to a satisfactory conclusion. At the formation of a partnership, its dissolution by death is rarely contemplated. It is an unwelcome subject; for no man who enters on a speculation can bear to think he may not live to finish it. Hence the contract is usually framed for operations during the proposed period; and when the parties anticipate the expiration of it, they dispose of the unfinished…
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