Stover v. Stover
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Bucks County, Sept. T., 1888, No. 1, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. A bill in equity was filed praying for an accounting between partners, and for partition of real estate, the title to which was held by them as tenants in common. The case was referred to a master who found that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of four thousand dollars.
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Appeal, No. 192, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Bucks County, Sept. T., 1888, No. 1, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. A bill in equity was filed praying for an accounting between partners, and for partition of real estate, the title to which was held by them as tenants in common. The case was referred to a master who found that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of four thousand dollars. The court directed that the real estate should be sold, and Nathan C. James, Esq., was appointed auditor to make distribution…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
In April, 1864, the plaintiff and defendant entered into a verbal contract of copartnership. This partnership was dis*427solved in April, 1879. During its continuance, the partners purchased several parcels of real estate and took title thereto ■ as tenants in common. These deeds were duly recorded soon after the lands were purchased. In 1888 the plaintiff filed a bill praying for an account of the partnership transactions and a partition of the land so held by the partners as tenants in common. The defendant did not deny any of the allegations of the bill except…
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