Case Name: S. BUCKLEY, Appellant, v. D. CARLISLE, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1852-10
Citations: 2 Cal. 420
Docket Number: 
Parties: S. BUCKLEY, Appellant, v. D. CARLISLE, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 420–420

Head Matter:
S. BUCKLEY, Appellant, v. D. CARLISLE, Respondent.
One partner cannot sustain an action against his copartner for the delivery of personal property belonging to the partnership.
Appeal from the Tenth District.
This action was for the recovery of personal property. The question was submitted to a jury, who found specially that the parties were partners in the property claimed by the plaintiff.
The Court ordered judgment to be entered in favour of the defendant with costs; and plaintiff appealed.
Walker, for appellant, relied on sect. 144, 5 and 6, of the Practice Act of 1851, and upon sects. 1 and 17 of the same Act.
Field, for respondent.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Heydenfeldt, Justice.
This was an action for the recovery of personal property. The jury found specially that the plaintiff and defendant were partners in reference to the subject-matter of the suit. The mere statement of the finding is sufficient to show that the plaintiff had no right to recover. The property was as rightfully in the possession of the defendant, as it would have been in the plaintiffs; and there being in the bill no allegation of partnership, and no attempt to seek a dissolution and an account, it follows that there was no relief, to which the plaintiff was entitled; and the judgment is therefore affirmed with costs.