Paradise & Bro. v. Gerson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
^PPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish .of Orleans. Saucier, 'The debts and affairs of an individual member of a firm are entirely separate and distinct from the debts and affairs of the firm itself.
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^PPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish .of Orleans. Saucier, 'The debts and affairs of an individual member of a firm are entirely separate and distinct from the debts and affairs of the firm itself. The corpus societas is a legal entity, entirely distinct from each of its members. 4 M. 378 ; 11 M, 429 ; 2 La. 84; 9 Rob. 196 ; 7 La. 337 ; 14 An. 497 ; 22 An. 443 ; 10 An. 479. Parol testimony is inadmissible to prove the promise of a commercial firm to pay a pre-existing debt of one of its individual members.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Poché. J.
Plaintiffs, a commercial firm, composed of Aaron Paradise and Bella J. Paradise, sue Ben Gerson on a balance of account of ■ '$1801 54.
As far back as the year 1871, Aaron Paradise, a merchant in Issa-quena county, Mississippi, began dealing with defendant, Ben Gerson, a commission merchant in this city, and continued down to the beginning of November, 1873, when Paradise formed a commercial partnership with his sister-in-law, Bella J. Paradise, under the name and style of *533Paradise & Bro. Through his brother, Jonas Paradise, who had' previously…
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