Doolittle v. Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County. The plaintiffs were Tilton E. Doolittle, Henry Stoddard and William L. Bennett, a law firm. The defendant pleaded in abatement that the writ was no otherwise signed than by William L. Bennett, as a commissioner of the Superior Court, while he was himself one of the plaintiffs. To this plea the plaintiffs demurred. Demurrer overruled and judgment afterwards rendered for the plaintiffs.
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Assumpsit; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County. The plaintiffs were Tilton E. Doolittle, Henry Stoddard and William L. Bennett, a law firm. The defendant pleaded in abatement that the writ was no otherwise signed than by William L. Bennett, as a commissioner of the Superior Court, while he was himself one of the plaintiffs. To this plea the plaintiffs demurred. Demurrer overruled and judgment afterwards rendered for the plaintiffs. Motion in error by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The plaintiffs in this case are copartners, the firm consisting of Tilton E. Doolittle, Henry Stoddard and William L. Bennett. The action was brought in the firm name of Doolittle, Stoddard & Bennett, to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County. At the first term the defendants appeared and severally pleaded in abatement to the plaintiffs’ writ, on the ground that it was signed by Mr. Bennett, a member of the firm, who was a commissioner of the Superior Court for New Haven County, and that the writ was not otherwise signed. The plaintiffs demurred to this plea, and the only question in…
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