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Parent Document: Patrick Blanks v. Fluor Corporation, 450 S.W.3d 308 (2014)
Jurisdiction: Missouri (state)
Effective Date: 2014-09-16
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2733178/patrick-blanks-v-fluor-corporation/ ↗

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   As to Professor Ordower’s general testimony regarding partnerships, defendants complain about the
following statements:
     1. All partners are directly liable for the debts of the partnership and for any injury that creates a
          liability to a third party.
     2. When businesses become partners in a partnership, “their histories come along with them,” and if
          they have debts, “they’re now the responsibility of the partnership and all of its partners.”
     3. When a partner commits a tort, “[t]he partnership and each partner is fully responsible.”
     4. When a new partner joins the partnership, “he becomes liable for the partnership’s history.”
     5. If partners use herbicides, and some might have been used before they became partners, and
          someone later gets sick, the partners have a long-term problem, and “there’s no way they can
          terminate that liability, that responsibility, unless the injured party, who is now their potential
          creditor, lets them off the hook.”
     6. If corporations transfer an existing business to a partnership, “then the partnership would take on
          the liabilities of those two separate businesses.”
Defendants did not object to statements 2 and 6. Defendants claim that these statements, “among others,”
were improper and that they “need not detail any more of this astonishing performance.” This Court cannot
review these “other” statements when defendants have neither bothered to point out what those statements
are nor identify what specific ruling they are challenging.

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