Question juridique clé
Whether the plaintiff had active standing to sue on the partnership fee claim after the chain of assignments.
Solution extraite
No. A claim belonging to a simple partnership could not be validly assigned by one partner acting alone without the co-partner's consent; the plaintiff therefore could not assert the claim in its own name.
Motifs extraits
The fee claim was a partnership asset held in joint ownership by the partners. Since the partner company acted alone and had no authority to dispose of the common claim, the initial assignment to the bank was ineffective to that extent, and the later assignment to the plaintiff could not cure the defect.