Case ID: tenn_48/html/0318-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Nicholson, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ephraim Link v. Isaac A. Allen.
    Pbactice. Bwit against Partners. Dismissal. A joint suit against two, as partners, may be dismissed as to one, and prosecuted as to the other-.
    EROM GREENE.
    In the Circuit Court, R. R. Butler, J., presiding.
    Assumpsit against two partners, one of whom was served with process, the other not. The suit was dismissed as to the defendant, who could not be found, and the declaration filed against the other. The defendant pleaded, the non-joinder, in abatement to-which was a demurrer, which was overruled, and judgment for defendant, from which plaintiff appealed.
    F. A. Reeves, for plaintiff.
    J. C. Beeks, for defendant.
   Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The only question raised by the pleadings, is, whether a plaintiff can dismiss as to one of two partners, jointly sued, and proceed to judgment against the other.

The Court below held that he could not; this was error. Code, §§ 2787, 2790; 4 Hum., 188.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for trial.