Tucker v. Tucker

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This controversy is between a surviving partner and trustees under the will of the deceased partner concerning the amount to which decedent’s estate was entitled in settlement of his interest in the partnership.

By agreement dated April 1, 1925, Louis B. Tucker and Joseph P. Tucker, who were brothers, formed a partnership under the name of Bernard Tucker’s Sons to carry on the towing, stevedoring and shipyard business which their father had established before them. Paragraph five of the agreement provided as follows: “In the event of the death of either…