Skannel v. Taylor

Defendant was partner of a commercial firm with which plaintiff did business. During .-uch partnership, defendant’s house fell in debt to plaintiff. On the first of July, 1851, a notice of the dissolution of the partnership was published in the newspapers. In the same notice, it was stated that the business of the firm would he continued by the two persons named, “ who alone will settle that of the late partnership.”

The two persons named in the notice (neither of them being the defendant) used, it seems, the same social style as the previous house, which had incurred the indebtedness to…