John J. White, Jr. v. William A. Brown

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The question we have to decide is whether or to what extent a partner who retires from a partnership, as did appellant White, under an agreement with two continuing partners that the latter would be responsible for the partnership debts and indemnify him, was. released in the circumstances to be stated from an indebtedness of the partnership to appellee Brown. The indebtedness grew out of professional services-rendered by appellee, a consulting engineer, to the partnership, a firm of' architects. The amount due for the services, with some adjustments arising out of other…