§59-44. Partnership bound by partner's breach of trust  


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  • The partnership is bound to make good the loss:

    (1)        Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives money or property of a third person and misapplies it; and

    (2)        Where the partnership in the course of its business receives  money or property of a third person and the money or property so received is misapplied by any partner while it is in the custody of the partnership.

(1941, c. 374, s. 14.)