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Gateway Potato Sales v. G.B. Investment Co.
Facts
Gateway Potato Sales (Gateway) (Plaintiff), a creditor of Sunworth Packing Limited Partnership (Sunworth) (Defendant), brought suit to recover funds for goods it had provided to Sunworth (Defendant). Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated § 29-319 imposes liability on limited partners who control the business; therefore, Plaintiff also sought recovery from Sunworth (Defendant) as a general partner and from G.B. Investment Co. (Defendant), a limited partner. At trial, G.B. Investment’s (Defendant) vice-president, Anderson, testified in his affidavit that G.B. Investment (Defendant) had exercised no control over the daily operation and management of the limited partnership, Sunworth (Defendant). This testimony, however, was contradicted by the affidavit testimony of the president of Sunworth (Defendant), Ellsworth. According to him, G.B. Investment’s (Defendant) employees Anderson and McHolm controlled the day-to-day management of the limited partnership (Defendant) and they made Ellsworth account to them for almost everything he did. G.B. Investment (Defendant) moved for summary judgment, insisting that there was no evidence that the circumstances described in A.R.S. § 29-319 had occurred in this case. It argued that, as a limited partner, it was not liable to the creditors of Sunworth (Defendant) except to the extent of its investment. The trial court agreed and granted G.B. Investment’s (Defendant) motion for summary judgment. Gateway (Plaintiff) appealed from the judgment and the denial of its motion for reconsideration, arguing that conflicting evidence of material facts existed.
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