Messinger's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Common Pleas of Northampton County sitting in equity. The suit was a bill for an accounting between partners. The accounts were examined by a master, whose report upon them, was approved by the court; and a decree ascertaining a balance-was made accordingly. From this decree each partner appealed. So far as details of the facts are necessary to the understanding of any principles decided, they are sufficiently given, in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Oi.abk:
This is a proceeding in equity, by a bill for an account, between Reuben L. Shimer and Samuel S. Messinger, partners asMessinger & Shimer in the foundry business and in the manufacture of agricultural implements, in Northampton county. The case was submitted to a master, who took a large amount of testimony. To his report numerous exceptions were filed; much of the testimony and many of the exceptions, however, have ceased to be important, as a large number of the items of dispute have been, by the parties, withdrawn from the litiga*3tion, and some have been finally…
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