Danforth v. Adams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, upon a note for $2,735, signed by S. Adams & Co., and payable to tlie plaintiff. The defendants were Salmon Adams and Lorenzo F. Fuller, and were sued as partners under the name of S. Adams & Co., and the principal question on the trial was, whether the defendant Fuller was liable upon the note with the defendant Adams, as such partner.
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Assumpsit, upon a note for $2,735, signed by S. Adams & Co., and payable to tlie plaintiff. The defendants were Salmon Adams and Lorenzo F. Fuller, and were sued as partners under the name of S. Adams & Co., and the principal question on the trial was, whether the defendant Fuller was liable upon the note with the defendant Adams, as such partner. On the trial upon the general issue closed to the court, the plaintiff, to show that Fuller was a partner in the firm, introduced evidence of divers acts and declarations of his, addressed to the plaintiff, or made and done in his presence, such as…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
The defendants were sued as partners, and were found by the superior court to be liable as such, although it was found as a fact that they had not been in partnership. *110This result was arrived at on the ground that certain acts and declarations of the defendant Fuller, though not intended to induce a belief in the existence of the partnership, yet, as they were well calculated to induce such a belief, and such was their natural consequence and effect upon 'persons generally, and the plaintiff was led by them to believe that the defendants were partners, and to give them credit as such,…
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