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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Halliday versus John Doggett et al.
    
    June 26
    The plaintiff, being a "partner of a manufacturing house in Scotland and their agent for exporting goods to this country, consigned certain carpets to a commission merchant in Boston, by whom they were sold to the defendants ; and this action was brought to recover the price. The Court, under the general issue, now ordered a nonsuit on account of the -non-joinder of the other owners of the goods, observing that the action should have been in the names of all the owners, or m that of the agent who made the contract.
    
    
      Sullivan, for the plaintiff,
    cited 1 Saund. 154, 291f; Rice v. Shute, 5 Burr. 2611 ; Sargent v. Morris, 3 Barn. & Aid. 280
    ; Skinner v. Stocks, 4 Barn. & Aid. 437
    
      Curtis, for the defendants.
    
      
       See Collyer on Partn. 390.