Cavill v. Harries

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment rejecting his demand for an accounting of an alleged partnership. '

Plaintiff’s wife and the defendant are sister and brother, the children of John Harries, who was engaged for a number of years in the painting and wall-papering business in the city of New Orleans. John Harries retired and left Louisiana for California in July, 1923, selling his business, at the time, to his son, Ernest J. Harries, who had been in his employ for approximately twelve years.

Plaintiff contends that John Harries, his father-in-law, while on a visit to plaintiff’s home in England…