Myers v. International Trust Co.

This suit was brought by the International Trust Co. in a Superior Court of Massachusetts against Samuel A. Myers and Harry Myers, partners composing the firm of S. A. & H. Myers, to hold them individually liable upon certain notes that had been executed by the partnership, in the firm name, for a partnership obligation, and endorsed by them personally. The defense was that the individual liabilities of the defendants had been dis charged by a composition in a prior proceeding in bank.ruptcy.- The Superior Court sustained this defense, and dismissed the plaintiff’s bill. On appeal, the…