Rhiner v. Sweet
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal, by the defendants, from a judgment entered on the report of a referee, in favor of the plaintiff. The action was brought to obtain an accounting, between the plaintiff and the defendants, as members of a copartnership, known as “ The Carthage, Lowville and New York Line,” and to recover the moneys found due thereon, to the plaintiff.
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This was an appeal, by the defendants, from a judgment entered on the report of a referee, in favor of the plaintiff. The action was brought to obtain an accounting, between the plaintiff and the defendants, as members of a copartnership, known as “ The Carthage, Lowville and New York Line,” and to recover the moneys found due thereon, to the plaintiff. The referee found, a partnership in the transportation business between the parties, which, commencing in February, 1861, was dissolved by consent in March, 1862, in which latter month an accounting was had between the partners, at which all…
1Opinion of the Court
*388By the Court
Mullin, P. J.
I entertain very serious doubts, whether the findings of facts in this case, are supported hy tile evidence. But,, it is not necessary to examine that question, as the judgment must be reversed, whatever our views may be upon that question.
The plaintiff, and the four defendants, composed the firm known as The Carthage, Lowville and New York Line,, and each was entitled to one-fifth part of the net earnings of the line. They settled, at the time of the dissolution, all their partnership matters, except such as were eennected with the loss of one of the boats in the…
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