Case Name: Stone v. De Puga, impleaded with A. B. Tripler
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1851-12-06
Citations: 4 Sandf. 681
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stone v. De Puga, impleaded with A. B. Tripler.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Superior Court of the city of New York
Volume: 6
Pages: 681–682

Head Matter:
Stone v. De Puga, impleaded with A. B. Tripler.
Pacts, and not the evidence of facts, are to be pleaded, in suits for legal relief.
In a suit on a note, against one sought to be charged as a general partner, who was ostensibly a special- partner with the trader who made the note, the proper course is to charge the defendant in the complaint as a general partner, and if the special partnership be ,set up as a defence, then to state in reply the acts alleged as constituting him a general partner. If such acts be set forth in the complaint, they will be stricken out on motion.-
(Before Oakley, Oh. J., and Sandford and Duer, J. J.)
December 6, 1851.
Motion to strike out part of a complaint. The action was on a promissory note made by Tripler in his own name. The complaint stated that fact, that the note was given for goods sold to the firm of A. B. Tripler, that the defendants composed the firm or partnership doing business in that name, and commenced business as such partners, and that the note was made by the firm or partnership. The complaint then set forth a special partnership entered into between Tripler and Be Puga, in which the latter was the special partner, and it charged various acts done by them, which, under the statute, would make Be Puga liable as a general partner, such as his not putting in the capital specified, his withdrawing capital, and the like. The defendant moved to strike out all of the complaint that related to the special partnership and the acts done under it.
W. G. Noyes, for Be Puga.
D. JE. Wheeler, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court,