Brenner v. Hirsh

Mississippi Supreme Court
Brenner v. Hirsh, 69 Miss. 309 (Miss. 1891)
Campbell

Brenner v. Hirsh

Opinion of the Court

Campbell, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Although E. Kahn was liable to account to the representatives of Greenbaum, the deceased partner, for continuing business in the firm name, and with firm assets, if such was the case, the business done by Kahn, after Greenbaum’s deatb^. was his individual business; and debts accrued to hjafi' in such business, although nominally due to GreenbajüHÍ& Kahn, were legally due to Kahn, and appropriable.creditors. A party cannot make use of a firm n^m’e, and take notes payable to that name, and, when sucjhi assets are sought to be reached by his creditors, elude thjptí' pursuit by setting up the real or imaginary claim of a partner, who was’ not such, to defeat creditors. /

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Brenner & Gaisman v. Hirsh, Lowenstein & Levy
Status
Published
Syllabus
Partnership. Death of partner. Business continued. Bights of creditors. Where, on the death of one member of a mercantile firm, the survivor continues the business in the firm name, it not being shown that he had authority so to do, debts thereafter accruing in the business, though nominally due to the firm, are subject to garnishment at the suit of his individual creditors.