Peycke v. Keefe

Searls, C.

This is an action to recover from the defendants, as copartners under the firm name of D. Keefe & Co., the sum of four hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents as a balance for money advanced by plaintiffs to defendants.

Defendant Keefe answered, averring that he was the sole member of the firm of D. Keefe & Co., denied the indebtedness to plaintiffs, and by way of cross-complaint, upon the facts therein stated, demanded a judgment against the plaintiffs for one hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-five cents.

Pending the case, and before a trial on the merits, such…