Court Opinion

ID: 7970264
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:54:29.713852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:45.262421
License: Public Domain

MITCHELL, J.
I concur, except in the result arrived at as to the claim of the Irish-American Bank. I think the consideration of the debt should, in this case, determine the class to which the claim belongs, and that, notwithstanding the authorities cited to the contrary, the claim of the bank should be treated as exclusively a partnership debt. A partnership is but an aggregation of individuals, and not an entity distinct from the members composing it. It is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and purposes of our insolvent law to permit one dealing with a partnership to obtain a preference by securing on the evidence of the debt the signatures of the members of the firm, individually, in addition to their signatures by their firm name. There is nothing in the general equity rule for the distribution of partnership and individual assets which requires any such result.
CANTY, J.
I concur with Justice MITCHELL.