Eady v. Newton Coal & Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Hammond. City court of Griffin. January 2, 1905. A partnership was formed in 1893 or 1894, under the firm name of H. P. Eady & Co., between H. P. Eady and J. A. Brooks,, for the purpose of engaging in the wagon and buggy business and conducting a blacksmith and general repair shop. Brooks had charge of the books and 4ooked after the office affairs of the firm, while Eady assumed the management of the shop.
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Complaint. Before Judge Hammond. City court of Griffin. January 2, 1905. A partnership was formed in 1893 or 1894, under the firm name of H. P. Eady & Co., between H. P. Eady and J. A. Brooks,, for the purpose of engaging in the wagon and buggy business and conducting a blacksmith and general repair shop. Brooks had charge of the books and 4ooked after the office affairs of the firm, while Eady assumed the management of the shop. Shortly after the partnership was formed, Brooks approached J. M. Mills, manager of the Newton Coal & Lumber Company, and solicited the-business of that concern,…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. Counsel for the defendant in error insists that the agreement between Brooks and the manager of the Newton Coal & Lumber Company was an engagement in furtherance of the partnership business, which Brooks had the right to make and by which .his copartner is bound. This proposition is claimed to be supported by the case of Perry v. Butt, 14 Ga. 699. The report of that case discloses *561that the partnership concern did a cash and credit business and bartered goods for other articles. The defendant was a tavern-keeper, and, in a conversation with one of the partners…
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