7 Johns. 468 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1811
There was no averment in. the declaration that the defendants were partners, or acted under the firm of John 8? George Pease, but the declaration is, that the defendants made the note, “ their own proper hands and names being thereunto subscribed,” and the proof was, that only the defendant George signed the note. This was not sufficient to prove the contract as laid. There is no case or precedent to warrant such proof applied to such a declaration.
In The Manhattan Company v. Ledyard & Ledyard, (1 Caines’ Rep. 192.) there were the proper averments| and that case only decides that it was sufficient to state that the firm subscribed the note, without saying that one qf the firm did it in the name of the firm.
The exception to the testimony being properly taken, the judgment below must be reversed, unless the defendant in error chooses to avail himself of the terms on which this court is willing to relieve him, upon his prayer for leave to amend. On the payment of the costs of the court below, subsequent to the filing of the declaration,