87.140 - Partnership bound by partner’s breach of trust.
87.140 Partnership bound by partner’s breach of trust. The partnership is bound to make good the loss:
1. Where one partner acting within the scope of his or her 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.
[14:74:1931; 1931 NCL § 5028.13]