Gordan v. Briody

On and prior to May 18,1938, the defendants Briody and Muir were engaged in business as co-partners in the city of Portland under the assumed business name of Industrial Chrome Plating Company. Their business was the chrome-plating of heavy machinery, such as rollers used in paper mills. On that day, Briody, assuming to act for the partnership, made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors in favor of the defendant Schulein, who had theretofore been one of its employees.

There was about that time another concern of the same name in Portland, engaged in the same business. This was a…