Legal Opinion · Dissent

Aronhime v. Levinson

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided September 11, 1916Published

Appeal from a decree of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Roanoke. Decree for the complainant. Defendant appeals.

1DissentSims, J.

I concur in the result of the above opimon to reverse the case, but not in so much of it as rests such reversal on the ground that there is a distinction between the duty of disclosure owing by one living partner to another from such duty of a surviving partner to the representative of a deceased partner. I regard the duty as the same in both cases. Where a selling partner in active charge of the business possesses information not in the possession of Ms living partner materially affecting the value of the purchase he seeks to make, and the latter relies upon,' or the former sees or has…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Brooks v. MartinSupreme Court of the United States · 1864
  2. Tennant v. DunlopSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
  3. McKinley v. LynchWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
  4. Yost v. CritcherSupreme Court of Virginia · 1910
  5. Krebs v. BlankenshipWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1914

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