Maffet & Rhoads v. Leuckel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of July Term 1878, No. 18. Assumpsit by F. Leuckel against W. B. Maffet and W. T. Bhoads, late partners as Maffet & Bhoads, for a sum alleged to be due to plaintiff by the firm.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of July Term 1878, No. 18. Assumpsit by F. Leuckel against W. B. Maffet and W. T. Bhoads, late partners as Maffet & Bhoads, for a sum alleged to be due to plaintiff by the firm. The case was referred to a referee, G. B. Bedford, Esq., who reported the facts as follows: “ That the defendants, during the year 1866, were partners engaged in building a section of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad; that upon the 27th day of November 1866, W. T. Rhoads, one of the defendant firm, applied to the plaintiff for §200, representing that he wished…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered March 22d 1880,
2Per curiam
There was nothing in the form of the note produced in evidence to preclude the plaintiff from showing that it was given for a partnership debt — that it was not accepted in satisfaction, but merely as collateral security. It matters not that the making of the note was cotemporaneous with the partnership debt. On the facts found by the referee, we are of opinion that the judgment was right.
Judgment affirmed.
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