Culligan v. Alpern

The questions involved in this proceeding are so clearly stated by the trial judge in his direction to the jury that we quote therefrom as follows:

“ The action is one brought by Patrick Culligan against Morris Alpern. For a number of years prior to April 10, 1902, Casper Alpern and his stepson, Morris Alpern, had been associated as copartners in the fish business here in this city under the firm name of Alpern & Co. On that day they dissolved that copartnership, and the copartnership relations never thereafter existed between them. That dissolution was evidenced by a written contract which…