Bennett v. Lathrop
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover wages, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence, by appeal of the defendant Heineman only, to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover wages, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence, by appeal of the defendant Heineman only, to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint contained five counts, each of which alleged in substance, that on the 1st day of February, 1898, the defendants, six in number, as members of the Lakeview Athletic Club, a voluntary association organized without articles of agreement, for…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The Lakeview Athletic Club consisted originally of five of the six defendants, who had associated themselves together under that name for the purpose of employing and managing a polo team for profit and pleasure.
The trial court has found that said members agreed to receive the defendant Heineman as a member, upon his own application, and to make Mm manager of the team; and that havmg been notified of said action he accepted the proposal and became a member, it being understood by all parties that he should participate in the profits and losses equally with the other members. Upon these facts…
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