Legal Opinion

Brown v. Grant

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 16, 1888PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal by defendant Grant, impleaded as an alleged copartner of the defendant C. D. Vernon, from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Hicks, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict for plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.

By the complaint in this action the defendants are charged as copartners, doing business under the name of the “Vernon Dairy Company, ” for the price of milk sold by the plaintiff and by one Wright' and by one Noble, between the 1st of May and the 1st of September, Wright and Noble having assigned their causes of action to the plaintiff. The defendant Grant interposed a defence, putting in issue the alleged copartnership, as well as the other facts alleged in the complaint. The question to which our attention will be principally given is whether the case justified a recovery against Grant.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Thompson v. First Nat. Bank of ToledoSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Wood v. PennellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1863
  3. Denithorne v. HookSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
  4. Hefner v. PalmerIllinois Supreme Court · 1873

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Herman Kahn Co. v. BowdenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
  2. Keller v. WolfSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1953
  3. Pump-It, Inc. v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1950

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