Ash v. Guie
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county: Of January Term 1880, No. 337. Assumpsit, by William H. Guie to the use of J. Alfred McOaughey, against Phineas A. Ash, Horace A. Beale, James Mullen, executor of James C. Roberts, deceased, and over one hundred others, “lately trading as Williamson Lodge, No. 309, A. Y. M.” The plaintiff filed the following statement: “ The plaintiff’s demand in the above case is founded on a claim for money loaned to the defendants,…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county: Of January Term 1880, No. 337. Assumpsit, by William H. Guie to the use of J. Alfred McOaughey, against Phineas A. Ash, Horace A. Beale, James Mullen, executor of James C. Roberts, deceased, and over one hundred others, “lately trading as Williamson Lodge, No. 309, A. Y. M.” The plaintiff filed the following statement: “ The plaintiff’s demand in the above case is founded on a claim for money loaned to the defendants, which was received by them, and used by them in the business in which they were then engaged, for which the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
One of the defendants, called by plaintiffs, testified: “ The full title of our lodge is Williamson Lodge, No. 309, E. and A. M.; F. and A. M. means Free and Accepted Masons; the purposes of our lodge are charitable, benevolent and social.” This is the evidence *499as to the objects for which the association was formed, and without proof of its constitution or rules respecting admission of members and the management of its affairs it was held to be a common partnership. A partnership has been defined to be a “ combination by two or more persons of capital, or labor, or skill, for the purpose of…
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