Legal Opinion

Hall v. Lonkey

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1880No. 7,174PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, in the Fourteenth District Court, County of Nevada. Beardan, J.

1Opinion of the Court

Sharpstein, J.:

It was not error to decree a dissolution of the copartnership, although there is no specific prayer for it in the pleadings. There is a prayer for general relief, and the facts found by the Court entitle the defendants to a decree of dissolution. Under these circumstances, the question whether it should be decreed or not, was one which addressed itself to the sound discretion *81of the Court which tried the case. And its judgment will not be disturbed, unless it be made to appear that such discretion has been abused. (N. C. & S. C. Co. v. Kidd, 37 Cal. 282.)

Nor did the Court err…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Nev. Cty. & Sacramento Canal Co. v. KiddCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Bank of Napa v. GodfreyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888

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