Hallet v. Desban

This suit has been brought to charge the defendant as a partner of J. B. Steel.

The whole ease turns upon the construction of a contract by which Norman, Steel & Co., appointed the defendant in 1840, their confidential clerk and bookkeeper, at a salary of $1200 per annum for two years, and made this further agreement, viz : “ that from and after the expiration of said two years, and for and during the space and term of two years thereafter, that is to say, from the 3d day of November, 1842, until the 3d day of November, 1844, the said James Desban shall receive as compensation for his said…