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Benton v. White
185 Ga. 286
| Ga. | 1937
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Lead Opinion

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

Separate proprietors of two adjoining lots of land were selling gravel to contractors from their respective lots for road construction. To avoid competition they verbally agreed to unite and authorize one of them to make sales and collections, allowing the contractors to take gravel from either lot, and the vendors to divide the proceeds equally. Held, that this does not constitute a partnership. Code, § 75-101; Thornton v. George, 108 Ga. 9 (33 S. E. 633); Hodges v. Rogers, 115 Ga. 951 (2) (42 S. E. 251); Padgett v. Ford, 117 Ga. 508 (2) (43 S. E. 1002). See also discussion of the subject in Smith v. Hancock, 163 Ga. 222, 229 (136 S. E. 52), where under different facts from those involved in the instant case, the relation between the parties was held to be a partnership.

In the absence of insolvency of the party selling, the judge erred, in a suit by the other party, in granting an injunction restraining, until the final trial, the selling party from selling and collecting for gravel on his own land in violation of the contract. The petition was founded on the principle of partnership, but the uncontradicted testimony of the parties themselves shows the case as above indicated.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Russell, G. J. and Hutcheson, J., who dissent.





Concurrence Opinion

Jenkins, Justice,

concurring in the judgment only. Irrespective of the question whether a partnership did or did not exist, I do not think, under the pleadings and facts of this case, that the grant of an injunction was authorized.

Case Details

Case Name: Benton v. White
Court Name: Supreme Court of Georgia
Date Published: Dec 1, 1937
Citation: 185 Ga. 286
Docket Number: No. 11932
Court Abbreviation: Ga.
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