Purple v. Farrington

Berkshire, J. —

The appellees, as partners, sued the appellants, Johnson and Cannan, as partners, to recover a sum of money claimed to be due them, and averred in their complaint that the said appellants had executed to their co-appellant, Purple, a chattel mortgage upon all the partnership goods owned by them to secure an alleged indebtedness due to the mortgagee from Cannan, one of the partners, contracted long before the existence of the partnership between Cannan and Johnson; that Johnson and Cannan were insolvent when the mortgage was executed, and that the said Purple accepted the…