Simandl v. Schimandle

Defendant appeals from a judgment granting plaintiff an accounting for one-half of the real property and business of an informal partnership conducted by plaintiff’s decedent and defendant’s decedent, 1 and granting judgment for an unpaid debt owed plaintiff herself by defendant’s decedent. Defense counsel argues that the trial court’s findings of a partnership and an unpaid debt were against the manifest weight of the evidence, that plaintiff cannot recover her decedent’s share in any such partnership, and that plaintiff’s testimony about prior transactions should have been barred by the…