Sumner v. Hampson
Ohio Supreme Court
This case was adjourned from the county of Fairfield, and carne before the court upon demurrer to the complainant’s bill, which sets forth that complainant was the wife of John Williamson, who died intestate; that after the marriage of petitioner to said Williamson, and as early as the year 1805, he entered into partnership with the defendant, Hampson, as builders, master-carpenters, and-general speculators, which was continued to the death of William•son, which, happened in…
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This case was adjourned from the county of Fairfield, and carne before the court upon demurrer to the complainant’s bill, which sets forth that complainant was the wife of John Williamson, who died intestate; that after the marriage of petitioner to said Williamson, and as early as the year 1805, he entered into partnership with the defendant, Hampson, as builders, master-carpenters, and-general speculators, which was continued to the death of William•son, which, happened in the year 1820; that- Williamson and Hampson had no written articles of partnership; that in the ■course of the business…
1Opinion of the CourtLane, J.
The point arising in the present case affords an example of the changes by which the law accommodates itself to the varying circumstances of the age.
No distinction was made by the Roman law between real and personal estate; both were subject to the same condition of descent or other legal disposition. When feudal principles predominanted, land, the reward of the soldier, or the means of organizing the military force of the government, was withdrawn, in a great measure from the control of the occupant or from liability' to his debts, and held subject to the rule of descents only. The efforts…
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