Case Name: Jacob Kronick & others vs. Alphonse Correale & others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1926-09-22
Citations: 257 Mass. 104
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jacob Kronick & others vs. Alphonse Correale & others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 257
Pages: 104–105

Head Matter:
Jacob Kronick & others vs. Alphonse Correale & others.
Berkshire.
September 21, 1926.
September 22, 1926.
Present: Rugg, C.J., Crosby, Carroll, Wait, & Sanderson, JJ.
The case was submitted on briefs.
W. C. Kellogg, F. H. Cande, & F. M. Myers, for the plaintiffs.
J. B. Cummings & J. M. Rosenthal, for the defendants.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This suit cannot be maintained unless the plaintiffs prove that the male defendants were copartners. The judge made an express finding of fact that the burden of proof had not been sustained. There was no error of law in making this finding. It was peculiarly the province of the trial judge to settle that question. His action in this particular will not be disturbed. In view of this finding of fact, all the requests of the plaintiff were denied rightly. The circumstance that the bill was taken for confessed against one defendant did not bind the other defendants. Goff v. Hathaway, 180 Mass. 497.
Decree dismissing bill affirmed with costs.