Supreme Judicial Court of Maine April 26, 1876 (Walker v. Bailey)

Barrows, J.

Two grounds were taken in defense at the trial: I. That if the plaintiff had any interest in the money loaned to Kidder, it was only that of a partner in the firm of E. H. Walker & Co., and so the suit in his individual name was not maintainable: II. That, at all events, the matter had entered into the adjustment between E. H. Walker & Co.