Court Opinion

ID: 6279993
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 16:12:59.352562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:10.380227
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Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
This is a suit against George S. Hunter, surviving partner. The goods sued for were charged on the books of the plaintiff to Paul Cumby, Morado. Paul Cumby and Hunter, the defendant, had entered into a special partnership for the purpose of building certain houses at *160Morado. Defendant admitted the partnership in his answer but afterwards asked leave to amend by striking out the admission. This was refused. As the defendant did not ask to amend his affidavit by inserting a specific denial of the partnership, a refusal of the court to allow him to amend harmed him nothing, as the partnership being alleged by the plaintiff it is deemed to be admitted by the defendant unless specifically denied: Act of May 14, 1915, P. L. 483, Sections 6 and 8.
The partnership being established the plaintiff, notwithstanding the goods were charged to Cumby, seeks to prove a resultant reliability, attaching to Hunter. It was incumbent upon the plaintiff to1 show that the goods were used for partnership purposes. He sought to perform this duty by showing that the goods were delivered to the house which the partnership was erecting. In answer to this defendant offered to prove that the goods were indeed delivered to the house but that there was a mistake made in so doing and that they were not intended to be used there, and were afterwards removed to another house, in which the defendant had no interest. This offer was rejected. We think it was competent. We have not the case here of goods being furnished and charged to a partnership. The credit in this case was not extended to the defendant. To hold him as surviving partner there must be some transaction actually involving the partnership and it was certainly competent for the defendant to prove the negative of this; that the goods.in question were not used for partnership purposes.
The seventh and eighth assignments are'sustained.
'The books of original entry against Cumby were not evidence of a delivery to the partnership, but if coupled with proof that the goods actually were furnished to the partnership, were admissible: Bear v. Trexler, 3 W. N. C. 214.
The judgment is reversed with a venire facias de novo.