Johnson v. Crichton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception —-At the trial the plaintiffs’ counsel asked the witness, Johnson, one of the plaintiffs, whether he had ever authorized or assented to the charging of Pitt’s individual indebtedness to the firm of Johnson & Pitt. To this question the defendant’s counsel objected, and the objection being sustained by the Court, (Gilmor, J.,) the plaintiffs excepted.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception —-At the trial the plaintiffs’ counsel asked the witness, Johnson, one of the plaintiffs, whether he had ever authorized or assented to the charging of Pitt’s individual indebtedness to the firm of Johnson & Pitt. To this question the defendant’s counsel objected, and the objection being sustained by the Court, (Gilmor, J.,) the plaintiffs excepted. Second Exception. — The plaintiffs offered the five following prayers: 1. That if the jury shall find from the evidence, that the…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs as partners against the defendant on open account. The pleas were, never indebted, payment, and set-off. The whole question of contest would seem to be in regard to the right of *112the defendant to he allowed on account with the plaintiffs as partners, certain credits growing out of separate, individual transactions, between the defendant and Pitt, one of the plaintiffs, and which, hy agreement1 with the individual partner, as it is claimed, were to he charged to the firm, and allowed on account. Some of the items for which claim is thus made hy the…
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