Thompson v. First Nat. Bank of Toledo
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This action was brought by the First National Bank of Toledo, Ohio, a national banking association established at Toledo, against William H. Standley, William H. Whiteside, Josephus Atkinson, Edward R. Thompson and Joseph Uhl, as -partners in the business of private bankers at Logansport, Indiana, under the name of the People’s Bank, upon a draft for $5,000, drawn and accepted by the…
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This action was brought by the First National Bank of Toledo, Ohio, a national banking association established at Toledo, against William H. Standley, William H. Whiteside, Josephus Atkinson, Edward R. Thompson and Joseph Uhl, as -partners in the business of private bankers at Logansport, Indiana, under the name of the People’s Bank, upon a draft for $5,000, drawn and accepted by the partnership on August 25th, 1877, payable in ninety days after date to the order of the plaintiff’s cashier, and taken by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
-The plaintiff at the trial sought to charge Thompson with liability as a partner upon two grounds: First, that he was actually a partner. Second, that if not actually a partner he had held himself out to the world as such. And the case was submitted to the jury upon both grounds.
The first and second assignments of error relate to the exclusion of evidence offered by the defendants bearing upon the first ground of action. The third and fourth assignments of error relate to the instructions given and refused as to the second ground…
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