Roney v. Buckland
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The facts are fully stated in the opinion; but for the better understanding of some of the points decided, certain portions of the charge of the Court below to the jury, which were excepted to by the appellant, are giyen as follows: “ The authority delegated by one partner to another is to act in their particular trade or line of business for the benefit of the firm ; and in such transactions…
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The facts are fully stated in the opinion; but for the better understanding of some of the points decided, certain portions of the charge of the Court below to the jury, which were excepted to by the appellant, are giyen as follows: “ The authority delegated by one partner to another is to act in their particular trade or line of business for the benefit of the firm ; and in such transactions strangers have a right to act on the credit of the partnership fund. It is not necessary that the money lent or credit given…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Leavis, J.
The appellant takes this appeal from a judgment rendered against him for fifteen hundred dollars, upon an indebtedness of a mercantile firm of Avhich the defendant is the surviving partner.
That the questions of laAv discussed upon this appeal may be fully understood, Ave will state generally the facts out of which the action arose, and about which there seems to be no controversy in this Court. It appears that in the year 1865 the appellant Buck-land and one Henry Bethel Avere copartners in the mercantile business in the county of Lyon. That in the month of October of…
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