New Haven & Northampton Co. v. Goodwin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, to recover a bill of freight; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court before Peck, J. The plaintiffs are a railroad company, and the defendants, at the time the bill accrued, were co-partners under the name of Goodwin & Buck, dealing in coal, at Unionville, upon the railroad of the plaintiffs.
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Assumpsit, to recover a bill of freight; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court before Peck, J. The plaintiffs are a railroad company, and the defendants, at the time the bill accrued, were co-partners under the name of Goodwin & Buck, dealing in coal, at Unionville, upon the railroad of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs transported coal for the defendants at sundry times from November, 1873, to March, 1874. During all this time and until June 4th, 1874, Buck was the agent of the plaintiffs at Unionville, but at the date last mentioned he absconded to…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
We think the court below erred in rejecting the books of the defendants as evidence in the case upon the question whether the claims of the plaintiffs had been paid. It was in evidence before the court, that the books had been kept by Buck, one of the defendants, and that all the entries in them regarding the transactions between the parties were proper charges to be entered upon the account books of the partnership, and that they were all made by Buck in the regular and usual course Of the business of the partnership. It was also in evidence that a long time before the trial Buck had…
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