Wiley v. Brundred’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[If] nothing was said about the matter, and if nothing was concealed, and if the defendant had no knowledge of the claim that was superior to that of his partners, it is difficult to understand upon what ground the plaintiffs’ claim can be sustained. The circumstance that it did not appear on the trial balance as an asset of the firm is of no sort of consequence, as there was no reason why it should be there. It was not an ascertained, definite claim, as for goods sold, or for anything due. It was, at the best, an undefined, uncertain, unproved, unliquidated right of action, which might or might not be sustained, and' about which none of the parties had any explicit knowledge, or anything more than a belief. What was its amount, if it had any amount, was totally unknown to all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ohaco Sheep Co., Inc. v. Heirs of Ohaco