East v. Key
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clark Chancery Court; James D. Shaver, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This bill was filed by W. G. E.- Key and J. A. McMenis aganist T. M. East, Jr., on the 10th day August, 1905. The parties had been equal partners in running a saw mill under a verbal contract made about the first of January, 1904, and the partnership continued until the first of June, 1904. No period! of duration was fixed in the contract of partnership.
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Appeal from Clark Chancery Court; James D. Shaver, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This bill was filed by W. G. E.- Key and J. A. McMenis aganist T. M. East, Jr., on the 10th day August, 1905. The parties had been equal partners in running a saw mill under a verbal contract made about the first of January, 1904, and the partnership continued until the first of June, 1904. No period! of duration was fixed in the contract of partnership. The object of the bill was to have an accounting and an adjustment of the differences between the partners, and for damages claimed by partners against the…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts.) Appellants objected that the account was not referred to a master. In the case of Bryan v. Morgan, 35 Ark. 115, Eakin, Judge, said that it was not erroneous for the chancellor to refuse a reference to a master, but that it was not good practice. In that case the chancellor refused a motion for a reference made before he had considered the testimony. He then took the account, and announced the result without making any special findings. Here the motion for a reference was not made until the chancellor had made a detailed statement of the account and transactions…
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