Page v. Thompson

The appellant, the appellee, and another person were the owners of equal shares of the steamer “ Mobile Gratz,” and ran her on joint account as partners. Upon the boat they kept a bar, with liquors and cigars for sale. The appellant brought this suit against the appellee (making the other partner a defendant, to answer as to his interest), to recover one third of the amount which the appellee owed the firm for liquors, &c., purchased at the bar of the boat. The complaint was in the usual form as upon an assumpsit. The partnership business had ceased when the suit was brought, but there had…