Hoffman v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““It is true that a person who enters into partnership with another does not thereby become liable to the creditors of his partner for anything done before he became a partner, yet there are exceptions to the rule. One is that where a contract made by a person or firm remains executory until a partnership is created or a new partner is admitted into the firm, and such contract, while it remains executory, is adopted by the incoming partner, who acquires all the benefit as if he had been a partner in the original transaction, a promise may be implied to assume the liability of the partner or firm on such contract. Frazer v. Howe, 106 Ill. 563 ; Lucas v. Coulter, 104 Ind. 81 ; Watt v. Kirby, 15 Ill. 200 ; Hellsby v. Mears, 5 B. & C. 504, 11 E. C. L. 539; Ex parte Peele, 6 Ves. Jr., 602-604. “In this case Stewart and Marhoefer knew that Thompson had made contracts with plaintiff and other players and knew that she and they were playing at the Angelus Theatre for the benefit of themselves and Thompson, and we think that the court might properly find that they became liable with Thompson to pay her for her services.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 17 Ill. App. 2d 346 - Magrini v. Jackson