Court Opinion

ID: 6801094
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 18:42:16.599217+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:03:15.022929
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The President.
The objection made to the judgment, is that it could not be entered against one partner only, upon a partnership transaction.
The case of Rice v. Shute,—5 Burr. 2611, shews, that one partner may be sued alone, and that the plaintiff shall not be non-suited at the trial upon proof that there are other partners. If the defendant would take advantage of that circumstance, he must plead in abatement, and point out the other partners.
The distinction between torts and contracts is overruled, and the principle seems to be established, that the party contracted with may be sued alone.
In this case the plaintiff took out his writ against both; one could not be found, and, according to the act of assembly, the suit abated as to him.
The .defendant, who was arrested, pleads that he did not assume—The jury have found that he did— The defendant, without assigning errors or taking any exceptions, appeals from a general verdict
*13Though the declaration charges, that trie defendant with another assumed, a fact which as to that other is , not tried, yet, this does not vitiate the defendants as* sump sit, which is found against him»
Judgment affirmed. (1)

 Shields v. Oney, 5 Munf, 550.