Legal Opinion
Davenport v. Morrissey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 15, 1897PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal by ibhe plaintiff, William B. Davenport, public administrator of Kings county, as administrator, etc., of. Michael J. Carry, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk' of the county of Kings-on the. 28th day of October, 1896, upon the report of a referee, to-whom a claim against the estate of his1 intestate was referred.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The plaintiff represents the estate of Michael J. Garry, deceased the defendants that of Thomas Garry, deceased. On May 1,1889, Thomas and Michael J. Garry entered into the following agreement of copartnership:
“Articles of copartnership made and entered into at the city of New York on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, between Thomas Garry, of the city of New York, party of the first part, and Michael J. Garry, of the city of Brooklyn, party of the second part, witnesseth:
“That the said parties have entered into, and hy these presents do enter into, a…
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