Legal Opinion
Rowland v. Lovett
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 17, 1932No. 21760PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
1. Although a partnership may be dissolved by the death of one of the partners (Civil Code of 1910, § 3162; Hammond v. Otwell, 170 Ga. 832 (8), 154 S. E. 357), yet where on the death of one of the members the surviving partners, instead of treating the partnership as dissolved, continue to do business as a partnership in the same manner and for the same purpose as before, they will be estopped to deny the existence of the partnership as to debts subsequently incurred within the legitimate business of the partnership as thus continued by them. Maynard v. Maynard, 147 Ga. 178 (93 S. E. 289, L.…
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