Parker v. Canfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit against the defendants, as partners under the name of H. O. Andrews, upon sundry notes executed in that name, with the common counts; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The following facts were found by a committee. The defendants were Henry O. Andrews, Jared H. Can-field and Hiram Hutchinson. Hutchinson resided out of the state and no service was made upon him. Canfield alone appeared and made defence.
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Assumpsit against the defendants, as partners under the name of H. O. Andrews, upon sundry notes executed in that name, with the common counts; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The following facts were found by a committee. The defendants were Henry O. Andrews, Jared H. Can-field and Hiram Hutchinson. Hutchinson resided out of the state and no service was made upon him. Canfield alone appeared and made defence. The principal question in the case was, whether the defendants were partners at the time when the plaintiff’s claim accrued. Early in the year 1865 Andrews was…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
During the year 1865 the defendants Can-field and Hutchinson became interested in the business which the defendant Andrews was engaged in at New Haven. From time to time during that year they furnished him with money as capital under an arrangement that they, Canfield and Hutchinson, should each furnish $5,000, and that they each should have one-sixth of the net ¿profits, and that the arrangement should continue till September 1st, 1868. The affairs of the company were to be under the management of Andrews, and carried on in his name. The details of the contract were however not fully…
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