Newman v. Newman

This is a suit for dissolution of a partnership and for an accounting. The plaintiffs below and appellees here are Mary Newman, a widow, and her daughter Florence Newman, a person non compos mentis, appearing by Mary Newman as next friend. The defendants below and appellants here are B. L. Newman, a son of Mary Newman, and his wife, Rebecca Newman. Trial below was to the court without a jury, and resulted in a judgment dissolving the partnership. The court found that the property of the partnership was not susceptible of partition in kind and consequently should be sold and the proceeds…