Douglas Reservoirs Water Users Ass'n v. Maurer & Garst

Suit was brought in the district court in Converse County against the dissolved partnership of Maurer & Garst and against Joseph Garst individually, seeking to recover $40,100 and interest for sums alleged to have been embezzled by R. C. Maurer, now deceased, who was a member of the partnership in his lifetime.

Parties appear to have made good use of the discovery procedures provided for in our rules of civil procedure, through the use of interrogatories and depositions. Thereafter, defendants filed an affidavit made by Garst and moved for summary judgment claiming there was no genuine issue…