Delamour v. Roger
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Third District Court of New Orleans, Kennedy, J. First. Partnership is a contract made between two or more persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some, or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between them. Story on Partnership, No. 2. Civil Code, 2772. Purdy v. Flood, 5 N. S. 629, 630. It may be made between alí persons capable of contracting.
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APPEAL from the Third District Court of New Orleans, Kennedy, J. First. Partnership is a contract made between two or more persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some, or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between them. Story on Partnership, No. 2. Civil Code, 2772. Purdy v. Flood, 5 N. S. 629, 630. It may be made between alí persons capable of contracting. C. C. 2773. We have no knowledge of any law or principle of law, by which a single woman is rendered incapable of becoming a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court:
Preston, J.
The evidence leaves no doubt of the conclusions to which the district court arrived in this case. 1st. That if the parties had been both men or both women, it would have fully established a partnership between them. 2d. That upwards of twenty years ago, in Paris, the plaintiff furnished the little capital with which they began business. 3d. That the plaintiff had contributed equally with the defendant, by her skill and application, to the success of their business. 4th. That the real property in this city standing in the name of the defendant, was purchased with the…
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