James A. Shedd & Co. v. Bank of Brattleboro
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. The bill set forth, in substance, that for sóme months previous to the 1st of September, 1857, John Robertson, Edwin R. Robertson, and 3.0. C. Cook, were partners in the manufacture of paper, at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and Bartonsville, Vermont, under the names of Robertson, Cook & Co., and E. R. Robertson & Co,, respectively; that on the 25th of September, 1857, such firms still continuing in existence, the defendants held various notes and bills of…
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Bill in Chancery. The bill set forth, in substance, that for sóme months previous to the 1st of September, 1857, John Robertson, Edwin R. Robertson, and 3.0. C. Cook, were partners in the manufacture of paper, at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and Bartonsville, Vermont, under the names of Robertson, Cook & Co., and E. R. Robertson & Co,, respectively; that on the 25th of September, 1857, such firms still continuing in existence, the defendants held various notes and bills of exchange, made, drawn, indorsed or accepted by John and Edwin R. Robertson, and by Robertson, Cook & Co., none of which had…
1Opinion of the Court
Redpield, Ch. J,
It is obvious that most of the topics discussed at the bar are not even remotely alluded to in the bill. There is nothing here in regard to this having been, in part or whole, the debt of the former firm, composed of John and Edwin R. Robertson, and so the effects of the Robertsons & Cook not liable for it. But from the statement in. the bill that Cook had been a partner some months before the 1st of September, 1857, and the fact that the oldest paper held by the defendants was made June 10, 1857, on four months, we infer that it was the debt of the Robertsons & Cook on the…
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