Case ID: mass_96/html/0532-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Foster, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Seth E. Pecker & another vs. Joshua G. Hall & another.
    A note given by one partner in the name of hia firm, and for a debt of the firm, but after i voluntary dissolution thereof, is binding upon the other partner, if the giving of notes for debts of the firm was usual during the continuance of the partnership, and the creditor had no notice of the dissolution.
    
      S. J. Thomas, for the defendants.
    
      R. M. Morse, Jr., for the plaintiffs, was not called upon.
   Foster, J.

Under the instructions given at the trial no other question arises than the following: After the dissolution of a partnership, one of the partners gave to a creditor of the firm a note in the firm’s name for a debt contracted before the dissolution, in the ordinary course of business of the partnership. The creditors accepted the note before they had any notice of the dissolution, either actual or constructive. The presiding judge ruled that if the giving of notes had been in the ordinary course of their business while the partnership existed, and this note was given to the plaintiffs in the course of such business, and before they had any notice of the dissolution, it bound both copartners. As the dissolution was by the voluntary act of the parties, this ruling was strictly accurate. Marlett v. Jackman, 3 Allen, 287.

Exceptions overruled.