Cecil v. Montgomery

This was an action commenced by defendant in error, plaintiff below, against the plaintiff in error, defendant 'below, for the purpose of recovering his share of the fruits of a joint adventure.'

The petition alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff and the defendant, together with J. R. Knight and Waldo Wadkins, entered into a certain oral contract 'by the terms of which they agreed to purchase at a certain guardian’s sale the interest of a minor in a certain tract of land, the agreement and consideration being that Knight would carry on the negotiations and Montgomery would pass upon the…