Holman v. Cape

This is an action in equity for an accounting and for the dissolution of a partnership.

The trial court dissolved the partnership and entered judgment against defendant for the amount of indebtedness disclosed by the accounting. Defendant appeals.

Appellant’s assignments of error raise but one question: In the absence of a request in the complaint, does the court have power to enter a money judgment against one of the parties, as the state of the account may require, or is the entry of such a money judgment beyond the issues presented by the pleadings?

The case of Yarwood v. Billings, 31 Wash.…