Brotherton v. Gilchrist
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Sanilac; Beach, J. Bill by Wilbur Brotherton against William A. Gilchrist, Perry F. Trowbridge and the Sanilac Sugar Refining Company for a partnership accounting. From a decree dismissing the bill as to defendant Gilchrist, the other defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, C. J.
This is a suit in equity for a partnership accounting. The business of the partnership was that of raising sugar beets in the county of Huron in the year 1902. Complainant, defendant Trowbridge, and defendant Gilchrist each was interested in this business. Complainant and Trowbridge were partners in said business, and the important question in the case is whether Gilchrist was also a partner. The trial court decided that he was not, and entered a decree in accordance with that decision. From that decree defendants Trowbridge and the Sanilac Sugar Refining Company (a creditor of the…
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