Superior Court of Delaware, 1836

M'cabe v. Morrison

M'cabe v. Morrison
Superior Court of Delaware · Decided July 5, 1836
2 Del. 66

Counsel

Booth and R. H. Bayard for plaintiff. Macbeth, Read, Jr. , and J. A. Bayard , for defendant.

M'cabe v. Morrison

Opinion of the Court

The Court

left the question of partnership to the jury; defining it to be an association for the purpose of trade, where each party is to receive and bear his proportion of profit and loss; and instructing them, as to the other question, that it depended on the fact whether Conelly was a known or a dormant partner. If he was unknown-to the defendant, who dealt with McCabe' alone, then McCabe had the right to sue him alone.-

The plaintiff had a verdict*-

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