Ratekin v. Droge Elevator Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. Suit for an accounting of partnership assets and earnings. Batekin Seed House, Incorporated, filed cross-petition, praying that the portion apparently belonging to plaintiff be decreed the property of J. W. Batekin, and subjected to the payment of any judgment cross-petitioners may recover against said J. W. Ratekin.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. Suit for an accounting of partnership assets and earnings. Batekin Seed House, Incorporated, filed cross-petition, praying that the portion apparently belonging to plaintiff be decreed the property of J. W. Batekin, and subjected to the payment of any judgment cross-petitioners may recover against said J. W. Ratekin. The district court found $3,485.15 to be plaintiff’s share of the partnership funds, and dismissed the cross-petition. The latter appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
— On January 11, 1918, Droge Elevator Company, J. W. Ratekin, and D. W. Thayer entered into a copartnership, known as the Droge Elevator Company, Seed Corn Department, with the object of engaging in buying and selling seed corn. The Droge Elevator Company paid in $200, and Ratekin and Thayer each $100, and the profits of the business were to be divided in the same ratio. The business was to be closed May 15, 1918, but was not concluded until June 22d following. On March 2, 1918, J. W. Ratekin executed an assignment to his father, the plaintiff, of all the profits which had been or might be…
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