Gilmer v. Fleenor

R. F. Fleenor, who had been one of a copartnership called Klondike Coal Company, filed his bill praying for a settlement of the partnership business, and the payment to him of the amount alleged to be due and unlawfully withheld from him by his copartners.

The pleadings raise and the decrees determine these issues:

1. The bill alleges that Scott Litton was one of the four partners. The answers deny this, and aver instead that the complainant, Fleenor, together with T. Perry Gilmer, P. H. Smith and J. W. Jones (who was a brother-in-law of Litton), constituted the partnership. The evidence and…