175 Ga. 33 | Ga. | 1932
Rehearing
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
Harwell, plaintiff in error, moves for a rehearing. He contends that the judgment of the trial court should be reversed, first, because that court rendered two contradictory judgments; and second, because Cowan was not entitled to “reimbursement of $650.00 with interest,” that being the amount of the incumbrance on the partnership property at the time of Harwell’s purchase. Neither of these points is well taken. “Where exceptions of law and fact to an auditor’s report in an equitable case were filed, and were overruled by the presiding judge, this was not a final judgment. Nor was the overruling of the motion to recommit the case, or a part of it, to the auditor a final judgment. Civil Code (1910), § 5147; Woods v. Woods, 5 Ind. Ter. 475 (82 S. W. 878).” Prater v. Crawford, 143 Ga. 709 (85 S. E. 829); Kency v. District Grand Lodge, 148 Ga. 515 (97 S. E. 439); Murphy v. District Grand Lodge, 148 Ga. 648 (97 S. E. 858); Huson v. Bank of Covington, 158 Ga. 434 (2) (123 S. E. 742); Lingo v. Rich, 169 Ga. 628 (151 S. E. 387); Civil Code (1910), § 5147. The first judgment rendered, which movant contends is contradictory to the later judgment, expressly disapproved the conclusions of the auditor and recommitted the case for further consideration. This judgment not being final, and no exception pendente lite having been taken to the order of recommittal, the case stood as it did before the first reference to the auditor. Such an order did not become final and unalterable when the term of court closed. If in fact the later order contradicted the first order, that affords in itself no reason for reversing the final judgment. The real question is whether the final judgment is erroneous, because contrary to law or evidence. The first judgment may have been either right or wrong without causing a reversal of the later judgment. The later must stand upon its own merits as measured by the assignments of error directed to it.
The final decree required the sale of the partnership property; that the $650 incumbrance, covering all of the property at the time
Lead Opinion
1. Every change in the personnel of a partnership, such as the withdrawal of a member or admitting a new one, works a dissolution. 20 R. C. L. 954, § 178; Richards v. Butter, 65 Ga. 593, 598 (2); Preston v. Garrard, 120 Ga. 689, 690 (48 S. E. 118, 102 Am. St. R. 124, 1 Ann. Cas. 724). Civil Code (1910) § 3162 does not state all of the means of dissolving a partnership.
2. “No partner, by assigning his interest or otherwise, can introduce a new partner without the consent of the others, unless such power is reserved in the contract.” Civil Code (1910), § 3173.
3. Under the pleadings and the evidence, considered in the light of both bills of exceptions, the decree rendered is not erroneous for any reason assigned. The judgments of which complaint is made are affirmed.
Judgments affirmed.