Sargent v. Collins
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, County of Lyon, Hon. Wm. Haydon, presiding. ' . 1st. The Court erred in overruling plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant N. P. Sheldon’s answer. 2d. The Court erred in allowing the deposition of S. W. Collins to be read as evidence on the trial of said cause. 3d.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, County of Lyon, Hon. Wm. Haydon, presiding. ' . 1st. The Court erred in overruling plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant N. P. Sheldon’s answer. 2d. The Court erred in allowing the deposition of S. W. Collins to be read as evidence on the trial of said cause. 3d. The Court erred in permitting the defendant Sheldon to testify that he was not a member of the firm of Collins & Co., such evidence tending to vary, contradict and destroy his own written contract in evidence herein. 4th. The Court erred in overruling plaintiff’s motion for…
1Opinion
Opinion by
Lewis, J., Beatty, O. J.,
concurring, on petition for rehearing.
If the truth of the geometrical axiom, that “ things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to each other,” should be denied, no line of argument could perhaps be pursued which would more closely establish it than the simple statement of the fact. So, upon the question of partnership in this case, that no agreement between Collins and Sheldon and Peck and Fitch could impose the duties, liabilities, and responsibilities of a partnership upon Gross, Martin, and Richardson, who were utter strangers to such…
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