Peckham v. Johnson

SPEER, Justice.

This suit was originally filed by W. H. Peckham against F. T. Johnson for an accounting of the business of an alleged co-partnership between the two while engaged in the ownership and operation of some named oil leases upon which there was small production. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was indebted to him for overpayments of firm debts which the defendant should have paid but that, to protect his own interest in the property, plaintiff had paid them, and asked for a foreclosure of an equitable lien on the interest of defendant in the partnership property.

The suit…