Downie v. Savage

Citations

• 72 Wash. 164
• 129 P. 1096
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1423

Syllabus

<p>Partnership — Existence of Relation — Evidence — Sufficiency. A finding that one of two brothers, employed by the other, was not a partner in the business nor liable as a partner by reason of having held himself out as a partner, is sustained, where although his brother did business under the name of S. Brothers (having bought out a former partnership business of a deceased brother, conducted in that name), and used letter-heads and received mail addressed in such firm name, and although many persons considered him a partner from such circumstances and the conduct of his brother, he himself had never assumed to act as a partner nor done or said anything to create the impression or mislead any person.</p>