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

Eliza Wilson v. Michael Colman and Owens Lyons.
    To prove a partnership, parol evidence cannot be given of the contents of printed cards, bearing their joint names, nor are the cards themselves evidence unless traced to the defendant. Nor can general reputation of partnership be given in evidence.
    Indebitatus assumpsit for board, lodging, and washing, of Coleman & Lyons, and Richardson their apprentice. The witness spoke of printed cards which he had seen bearing their joint names.
    
      Mr. Jones, for the defendant,
    Lyons, objected to evidence respecting the cards, unless they were produced and traced up to the defendant.
    
      Mr. John Hewitt, for the plaintiff,
    asked the witness whether the defendants were not generally reputed partners.
    
      Mr. Jones objected, and the Court decided the question to be improper.
   The Court

(Duckett, J., absent,)

said they must produce the cards ; they could not give parol evidence of their contents.