Mosher v. Canfield’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““The purpose of these provisions is obvious. It is to enable the court to settle speedily and in the one action, if possible, all of the rights of all of the parties interested in the subject-matter of the suit. We think the court’s order highly commendable, and that a refusal to make it under the circumstances, it being-made to appear that the debt was a partnership debt, would have been an abuse of discretion. No excuse for failure to make Wallace [the partner] a defendant is shown, such as inability to find him or nonresidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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