Mayor v. Fay

This action was brought to recover a sum due upon a contract made between the plaintiff and a copartnership alleged to have been composed of James T. Keenan, the defendant’s testator, and one Thomas Hu gent. The defendant by her answer having denied the copartnership, it became necessary for the plaintiff to prove the same, and the only evidence which was offered to substantiate this allegation of the complaint was a portion of the answer of the present defendant as executrix in an action begun against her by Eugeni, in which she alleged on information and belief that the said FT agent and…