Before an executor shall be permitted to carry on the partnership business or remain in the partnership business he should have clear and positive directions from the will. In the absence of this provision it would be improper for the executor to invest new and additional capital in the co-partnership.4

1 Griswold vs. Waddington, 15 Johns (N. Y.), 57.

2 Story on Partnership, 438; Buckingham vs. Morrison, 139 Ill., 437.

3 Alsot vs. Matock, 8 Conn., 584.

4 Smith vs. Smith, 13 Grant Chan., 81.