Dorn v. O'Neale
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, Esmeralda County. This was an action by George W. Dorn, M. M. English, and Joseph Demont, partners under the firm name and style of Dorn, English & Co., and G. W. Dorn & Co. against John D. Winters and William T. O’Neale, partners under the firm name and style of Winters & O’Neale, and of the Independence Mill Company, on a certain book account and various bills of exchange, amounting in all to two thousand…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, Esmeralda County. This was an action by George W. Dorn, M. M. English, and Joseph Demont, partners under the firm name and style of Dorn, English & Co., and G. W. Dorn & Co. against John D. Winters and William T. O’Neale, partners under the firm name and style of Winters & O’Neale, and of the Independence Mill Company, on a certain book account and various bills of exchange, amounting in all to two thousand eight hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents, and interest. Judgment was entered February 10th, 1870, against O’Neale…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
WHITMAN, J.:
Respondents originally brought their action against Winters and * O’Neale, as partners, upon a number of joint obligations: O’Neale answered, denying the partnership, and setting up the fact that his co-defendant had been adjudged a bankrupt, under the Statute of the United States, and praying a stay of proceedings until final adjudication thereunder. Proceedings were stayed until the final discharge of Winters, when he came in and pleaded such discharge in bar of the suit. During this interim, O’Neale had agreed upon certain facts with plaintiffs, which admitted the…
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