Smith v. Maine

Each of these consolidated actions is brought in equity for an accounting of an alleged partnership. The first, in my memoranda deciding the issues, which memoranda will be *523in two parts, will be referred to as the Smith action; the other as the Maine action. The Smith action has been pending since February, 1928; it went to trial before the late official referee Isaac N. Mills in July of that year, and hearings were had between then and October 8, 1928. The trial was not completed. Owing to the regrettable illness which eventuated in the death of the learned official referee, the matter was…