H. & P. Lee v. Lashbrooke

In the absence of any evidence of a contract to the contrary, the legal presumption is that, each of the three co-partners were to be entitled to co-equal shares of the profits of the joint concern, and that each was to contribute whatever of personal service and proper assistance he reasonably could to sustain and promote the objects of the partnership.

In such a case, it is a general rule, as fixed as it is just, that neither of the partners will be entitled either to compensation from the others, for any service voluntarily rendered by him, in the partnership business, or to interest on…