22 Ohio St. 606Feigley v. Whitaker (1872)
<p>1. Although the dissolution of a partnership revokes the implied authority of each partner to hind his copartners by any new promise or engagement, yet it leaves upon each partner the duty, and continues to' each the right, of doing whatever is necessary to collect claims due to the partnership, and to adjust, settle, and pay its debts.</p> <p>2, That in so far as a partner, after dissolution, acts within the scope of sncl) limited authority, his acts and admissions are admissible as evidence to charge his copartners.</p> <p>.3. In an action against A., as survivor of B., partners in the late firm of A. & B., it having been shown that certain dealings between the plaintiff and the firm were unsettled at the date of its dissolution, it i* competent for the plaintiff to prove, as against the defendant, that the deceased partner B., after the dissolution, upon adjustment with the plaintiff of such unsettled business, admitted that there was due the plaintiff, on account thereof, the amount claimed in the action.</p>
