Commonwealth v. Arnheim

Citations

• 3 Pa. Super. 104
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 111

Syllabus

<p>Partnership — Conditions 'of partnership defined.</p> <p>A partnership can be created'as well in a single business transaction, as for the purpose of carrying on a business extending over a period of time and involving a number of transactions.</p> <p>Criminal law — Embezzlement as consignee — Partnership.</p> <p>Where a contract provides for the parties thereto to share the profits and losses upon the sale of horses equally or otherwise, such contract constitutes a legal partnership, and there can be no conviction for embezzlement by one of the parties as consignee, there being nothing in the evidence to take the agreement out of the general rule defining a partnership.</p>