Beeson v. Lang
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 238. Assumpsit by John Watt and W. E. Lang, trading as Watt, Lang & Co., against William Beeson, Robert Hogsett and William Rea. The declaration was in the common counts. The defendants in the praecipe, and the writ and narr. were described as “ doing business as partners and charged as such under the name of the Directors of the Dunbar Iron Company.”
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 238. Assumpsit by John Watt and W. E. Lang, trading as Watt, Lang & Co., against William Beeson, Robert Hogsett and William Rea. The declaration was in the common counts. The defendants in the praecipe, and the writ and narr. were described as “ doing business as partners and charged as such under the name of the Directors of the Dunbar Iron Company.” Service was had upon Beeson and Rea only. Watt died after suit brought. The defendants pleaded no partnership, non-assumpserunt, payment,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
There is not in all the testimony produced on the trial of this case in the court below a scintilla of evidence upon which the defendants could be held liable as partners. They were not a committee of the creditors carrying on the business as their agents, and for their exclusive benefit, as was the case in Cox v. Hickman, 8 H. of L. 268, nor were they a committee of an indefinite and unknown number of principals, as in the case of Eichbaum v. Irons, 6 W. & S. 67; but they were a committee of the Dunbar Iron Company — ra corporation chartered under the laws of the Commonwealth. The contracts…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Eichbaum v. IronsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
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