Stickney v. Kerry

While there are two plaintiffs and four defendants named in the title to this action, C. L. Stickney is the only plaintiff and Ruth B. Kerry the only defendant involved in this appeal.

The question in the case is: In a partnership accounting, can a nonpartnership debt owed by a bankrupt partner to one of the other partners be paid to him out of the bankrupt partner’s interest?

The partnership involved in this litigation was composed of four members, one of whom, Stickney, leased the partnership property, known as the West Tenino Lumber Company, and employed another partner, Harold E. Kerry, to…