Everett v. Jones
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Jefferson county. Action by William H. Everett against Charles E. Jones and Catharine Hunter. From an interlocutory judgment directing the reformation of a partnership agreement between plaintiff and defendants, and the dissolution of the partnership and an accounting, plaintiff appeals, and also moves for a new1 trial, made under section 1001, Code Civil Proc.
1Opinion of the CourtMerwin, J.
On or about the 6th day of August, 1888, the plaintiff and the defendants formed a copartnership in the business of the manufacture and sale of mechanical wood-pulp, at the village of Dexter in Jefferson county, upon premises prior to that time owned and occupied by the defendants. The title to the premises was in the defendant Jones, but he had, on the 11th February, 1888, given a contract of sale of an undivided half thereof to the defendant Hunter, upon which there was unpaid $1,500. On the 6th August, 1888, the plaintiff paid to Jones the sum of $2,000 in cash, and executed and delivered…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Born v. . SchrenkeisenNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Devereux v. Sun Fire Office of LondonNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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