AMERICAN LAW
QUOTED IN HAMILTON PARTNERSHIP LIABILITY (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. The American law was quoted in an action instigated in America, which came before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff was the Standard Oil Company of America, and the defendant Morton Dugdale Walmsley, drainage engineer, Hamilton, formerly a. partner in the Suisun Dredging Company, San Francisco. The action was for a debt of £376 and interest at 7 per cent, contracted by the defendant company. The defence pleaded the Statute of Limitations and raised the question of whether a portion of a debt paid by one partner in 1921 revived the debt against the other, and asserting that Walmsley bad no personal knowledge of tbe debt, as he retired from the concern in February, 1919. The statement of claim set out that defendant and one E. P. Antron, at the time the debt was contracted, carried on business in partnership at San Francisco under the name of the Suisun Dredging Company. Between November, 191 S, and February, 1919, niaiatiff company gold to defendants
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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180AMERICAN LAW Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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