Court Opinion

ID: 9695565
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:23:12.457765+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:14.194785
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Alcorn, J.
(concurring in the result). Although I agree that the plaintiff should not prevail, I would rest that result on the ground that no partnership existed. Despite the name given to his status by his brother-in-law in order “to keep peace in the family”, the plaintiff was no more than an employee. He had no voice in the business. His receipt of a share of the profits was as compensation for services rendered and did not make him a partner. Loomis v. Marshall, 12 Conn. 69, 78; Pond v. Cummins, 50 Conn. 372, 375.
One can be either a general or a limited partner. The opinion admits that the plaintiff “was not a general partner and therefore not a partner in the usual sense”. It ignores the fact that, by virtue of the “arrangement”, he could not be a limited partner under the statute which was then applicable, § 6279 of the 1949 Revision of the General Statutes. In approving the trial court’s conclusion that the “arrangement” was a partnership, the opinion strays from our established and sound definition of that relationship. Morgan v. Farrel, 58 Conn. 413, 421, 20 A. 614; Active Market, Inc. v. Leighton, 124 Conn. 500, 504, 200 A. 822.