Fletcher v. Pullen
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court, and the several exceptions to evidence are therein sufficiently stated.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court, and the several exceptions to evidence are therein sufficiently stated. The agreement or lease referred to in the opinion is as follows: “ This is to certify, that I have let and rented unto R. W. Bramble, the part of the East Cambridge farm lying southeast of the railroad, and the hedge south of the apple and pear orchard, containing about fifteen acres of land, for the term of six years, beginning on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and ending on the first day of…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The plaintiffs who are nurserymen in Milford, Delaware, sued Bramble and Fletcher as partners in the same business at Cambridge in this State, for fruit trees sold and delivered to them in the autumn of 1886. Bramble died before the trial, and Fletcher defended upon the ground that he was not a partner. The exceptions relate mainly to the admissibility of evidence upon the question, not whether Fletcher and Bramble were actually partners inter sese, hut whether Fletcher *213had held himself out, or had permitted himself to he held out, as a partner, so as to become responsible to third parties.
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