In re Partnership Estate of Henry Ames & Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. If these are assets of the firm of Henry Ames & Co., this being the home of the domicil, it is competent for the administrators of the surviving partner, in charge of said partnership of Henry Ames & Oo., to make distribution or sell the assets of that partnership in another State.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. If these are assets of the firm of Henry Ames & Co., this being the home of the domicil, it is competent for the administrators of the surviving partner, in charge of said partnership of Henry Ames & Oo., to make distribution or sell the assets of that partnership in another State. (Redfield on Wills, 20 ; Wilkins vs. Ellet, 9 Wall., 740 ; Yroom vs. YanHorne, 10 Paigei Ch. 549; Schultz vs. Pul ver, 11 Wend., 361; Williams vs. Storrs, 6 John Ch., 353.) As Mrs. Ames is the purchaser and does not object to the position she is in, and is willing to run the…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Judge,
delivered the opinic&i of the court.
Prior to August 14th, 1866, Henry and Edgar Ames were co-partners under the firm name of Henry Ames & Co., doing business as pork packers and commission merchants in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, where both partners resided, and continued'to reside during their lives. On the 14th of August, 1866, this firm was dissolved, by the death of Henry Ames. The surviving partner Edgar Ames took out letters from the Probate Court of St. Louis County on the partnership estate, and eon tinued this administration up to the time of his death in December…
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