Court Opinion

ID: 6402095
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 00:33:57.695382+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:04.988148
License: Public Domain

President.
The question really is, whether the defendants, as partners, may shew, that the plaintiff took a separate account, known to be such into a partnership settlement; or whether the partner having the separate account, by making a settlement in the partnership name, can conclude the other partners, and make them liable for the separate account. We are clear that the proof is admissible.
Mr. Young was then sworn, and proved, that a protested bill, drawn by Peter Marmie, on John Barclay was sent up to him, from Philadelphia, to get the money from the drawer; that, by the directions of Mr. Marmie, he called on Mr. Kirkpatrick for the money, who declined payment (as he then considered himself in advance to the company) till some castings should be sent him from the furnace of Turnbull and Marmie, which Kirkpatrick considered as the fund out of which he was to advance the money; and that Kirkpatrick afterwards paid the money.
President.
The settlement is prima facie, evidence of the balance being due by the company to the plaintiff. But it is not always conclusive; and the other partners may shew, that the plaintiff has taken a separate account of the settling partner into the settlement.
If Kirkpatrick advanced this sum of 100 dollars to Mr. Young, in payment of Marmie’s debt, on the credit of Marmie alone; it cannot be received as an item in the partnership account, and must be struck out of the balance. For the plaintiff and the settling partner have no right to make the company pay the settling partner’s debts.
But if Kirkpatrick paid this sum of 100 dollars, by the directions of Marmie, an acting partner of the company, as a payment for castings received from the company; it is a payment to the company. For they entrusted Marmie with the sale of the castings, and the receipt and application of the money arising from such sale.
*261The jury found for the plaintiff, as before, for the amount of the settled balance, with interest.