Townsend v. Meyers

This is an action for an accounting of partnership assets of the law firm of Townsend & Meyers. Plaintiff claims that the copartnership began in January, 1902; that the proceeds of a certain retainer accepted by the defendant in June, 1902, were partnership assets; and that on the subsequent dissolution of the firm the defendant on his accounting fraudulently omitted the proceeds of the said retainer. The defendant claims that the copartnership did not begin until February 1,1902, that the retainer was his individual business, and that the proceeds thereof were not firm assets. The retainer…