Bryant v. Lord
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was brought in the district court for Olmsted county. The complaint alleges that the defendants were agents of the plaintiff for the sale of sewing machines, under a written contract, set forth in the complaint, made between the plaintiff and the firm of Lord, Taylor & Compton, to which-firm the defendants, as the firm of Lord, Taylor & Co., had succeeded.
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This action was brought in the district court for Olmsted county. The complaint alleges that the defendants were agents of the plaintiff for the sale of sewing machines, under a written contract, set forth in the complaint, made between the plaintiff and the firm of Lord, Taylor & Compton, to which-firm the defendants, as the firm of Lord, Taylor & Co., had succeeded. This contract, after authorizing Lord, Taylor & Compton to sell machines on credit, but requiring them in such case to take notes of responsible makers drawn to their order, contains the following articles: 6th. “The said Lord,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Ripley, Ch. J.
We discover nothing in this case, as settled, which would take Taylor’s endorsement of the name of “Lord,'Taylor & Co.” on the note of Pratt-to Bruce or bearer out of the general rule, that after dissolution one of the late firm has no authority to bind the others by such an endorsement. The case of Lange vs. Kennedy, 20, Wisc. 279, holding that after dissolution one of the late firm cannot bind the other by giving to a party, who has notice of such dissolution, a note in the firm name for a balance due on partnership dealings, is in point.
There is no evidence of…
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