Carey & Co. v. Burruss & Pitzer
West Virginia Supreme Court
(*Snyder, Judge, Absent.) Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Monroe, rendered on the 19th day of May, 1879, in an action in said court then pending, wherein James Carey & Co., were plaintiffs, and Burruss & Pitzer were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Ilomer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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(*Snyder, Judge, Absent.) Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Monroe, rendered on the 19th day of May, 1879, in an action in said court then pending, wherein James Carey & Co., were plaintiffs, and Burruss & Pitzer were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Ilomer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: James Carey and Charles Bangs, partners'under the name and style of James Carey & Co., on July 19, 1878, sued in the circuit court of…
1Judgment of the CourtGreen, Judge
There were various questions mostly technical in their character, which have been argued by counsel in this case and the consideration of which I will not undertake, because I deem it unnecessary to decide them, as the case can be decided satisfactorily on its substantial merits. The principal question on its substantial merits involved in this case is, whether a married woman in this State living with her husband, can enter into a mercantile partnership with a third person, which a court of law could recognize so, that she and such third person could be sued at law for a partnership debt.
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