Brown v. Farnham
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, James F. Brown, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made March ■20, 1893, sustaining a demurrer to his complaint.
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Appeal by plaintiff, James F. Brown, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made March ■20, 1893, sustaining a demurrer to his complaint. The complaint stated that on January 26, 1886, defendant Sumner W. Farnham and James A. Lovejoy were partners in business in Minneapolis under the firm name of Farnham & Lovejoy; that the firm then owed plaintiff f12,000; that on that day Lovejoy died testate, and that defendants Winthrop Young, O. C. Merriam and Jeremiah J. Howe, were named executors of his will. On March 12, 1886, the will was proved in the Probate…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
This action is brought upon a composition agreement executed by defendant Farnham, surviving partner of the firm of Farnham & Lovejoy, and the executors of Lovejoy. This agreement was before the court in the case of Brown v. Farnham, 48 Minn. 317, (51 N. W. Rep. 377.) It is not, however, set out in the report of the case, and its terms are not specially referred to in the opinion, but it was considered, without much discussion, therein, that this instrument fell within the rule laid down in a class of cases to which belong Good v. Cheesman, 2 Barn. & Adol. 328; Goodrich v. Stanley, 24 Conn.…
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- Sumner v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
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