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2 Pin. 95

Elderkin v. Winne

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1849

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1849-01-15

This action was commenced before a justice of Walworth county, and the plaintiffs, Winne The case was carried to the late district court by certiorari, and the district court reversed the judgment. Upon such reversal a writ of error was brought to this court. The parties submitted the case without argument.

Decided 1849-01-15

Larrabee, J.

¶1This cause was submitted without argument. The defendants declared before the justice as partners ; and this being put in issue, was decided against them, and judgment of nonsuit rendered. This was reversed upon certiorari by the district court.

¶2The proof consisted of a written agreement to carry on the blacksmith business ; one furnishing capital and the other labor ; the profits and expenses to be divided equally.

¶3In the same article was an agreement between Winne and one Margrat, to carry on the business of painting; and it was contended that this constituted a partnership between them all; and upon this ground judgment was rendered against the plaintiff below. In tiffs the justice was clearly wrong ; as it is difficult to imagine upon what principle of law, or by what process of reasoning, Brown and Margrat were considered bound by the agreement as partners. The contract of Winne with each, was a separate and independent one for the carrying on of separate and independent branches of trade. The ratio of division of profits was different in each, and in no manner was Brown and Margrat to participate in the profits of each other’s labor, or furnish each other with capital.

¶4The district court very properly reversed the judgment, and the judgment of that court must be affirmed.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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