Legal Opinion
H. B. Claflin Co. v. Gross
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 23, 1901No. 16PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the H. B. Claflin Company against Augustus S. Gross, George A. Barnitz, *387James S. Maclae, and J. Ruther Gallatin upon promissory notes amounting to $26,999.48, signed in the name of J. Ruther Gallatin alone, but alleged by the plaintiff to have been given by a firm trading in the name of J. Ruther Gallatin, but really consisting of the four defendants, it was shown that on June 21, 1897, two of the defendants, Augustus S. Gross and James S. M.ackie, by written articles of partnership formed a firm to carry on the business of the “.Boston Store,” at…
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