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3 D.C. 241

Taylor v. Smith

Decided December 15, 1827

INDebitatus assumpsit, for compensation as engineer of the steamboat Surprize, the plaintiff having been employed and paid as master.

Decided 1827-12-15

¶1The CouRT, however, in the present case, inclined to think that the plaintiff must be considered as a partner; and that as his claim was for services on board the boat, he, being himself a copartner, would have to bear his proportion of the value of those services, and the defendants had a right to have the whole partnership concerns settled, and the plaintiff’s share ascertained, before they could be compelled, to pay him any thing.

¶2The plaintiff became nonsuit, with leave to move to reinstate the cause. A motion was made accordingly, which was overruled, June 5th, 1838.

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