Mearns v. Chatard
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against a retired partner of a defaulting copartnership. Tbe Court in tlie opinion stated the facts as follows: On May 2, 1913, tlie appellant, William A. Mearns, was a member of tbe partnership of Lewis Johnson & Company, this city, and continued to be until May 13, 1914-, when he withdrew therefrom, the continuing members taking the assets and assuming the liabilities.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against a retired partner of a defaulting copartnership. Tbe Court in tlie opinion stated the facts as follows: On May 2, 1913, tlie appellant, William A. Mearns, was a member of tbe partnership of Lewis Johnson & Company, this city, and continued to be until May 13, 1914-, when he withdrew therefrom, the continuing members taking the assets and assuming the liabilities. On the first date appellee, plaintiff below, Eleanor A. Chatard, acting by lier husband, Thomas M. Ohatard, deposited with…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smytii
Wé will consider first the argument that the appellant was released. The record discloses that, soon after Mrs. Chatard had placed her stock with the partnership, she and her husband left for Europe and remained away for about a year and a half, or until October 17, 1914. In the interim the partnership had from time to time placed to her credit in a Baltimore bank different sums of money as dividends upon the stock. When they returned, Mr. Chatard called at the office of the partnership, and there learned for the first time that Mearns had withdrawn from the firm. Henry, one of the new…
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