Baker v. Mayo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equitt to settle the affairs of a partnership. The case was referred to a master, to whose report the plaintiff filed four exceptions, the first and second of which related to items which the plaintiff contended should be included in the principal sum found due, and the others related to the allowance of interest on money advanced by the defendant to the firm.
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Bill in equitt to settle the affairs of a partnership. The case was referred to a master, to whose report the plaintiff filed four exceptions, the first and second of which related to items which the plaintiff contended should be included in the principal sum found due, and the others related to the allowance of interest on money advanced by the defendant to the firm. At the hearing, before Soule, J., the parties agreed that on a final decree the first and second exceptions might be considered as correctly taken; and the questions arising on the other exceptions were reserved for the…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
These parties were partners under an oral agreement, and, as such, entered into a contract to build a prison for the Commonwealth, the profits and loss of which undertaking they were to share equally. The master does not find the amount of capital which each was to contribute, or that there was any agreement on that subject; but he states that of the capital required for the business less than one thousand dollars was furnished by the plaintiff, and that all the other capital was furnished by the defendant. He also finds that the defendant advanced for the use of the firm $27,064, which was…
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