Dickinson v. Dickinson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, alleging that the petitioner and the defendants had been partners and that the partnership was dissolved, and praying for a division of the property of the partnership among the partners, and for a decree requiring the defendants to pay the petitioner two-thirds of the value of certain personal property alleged to have been sold by the petitioner to the firm at the time of the formation of the partnership.
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Bill in equity, alleging that the petitioner and the defendants had been partners and that the partnership was dissolved, and praying for a division of the property of the partnership among the partners, and for a decree requiring the defendants to pay the petitioner two-thirds of the value of certain personal property alleged to have been sold by the petitioner to the firm at the time of the formation of the partnership. The respondents denied the sale alleged and claimed that if it was made the property was afterwards re-sold to the petitioner or the contract of sale rescinded. The facts…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
Upon the face of this bill its main object appears to be to procure a division of certain property which the plaintiff claims belonged to the partnership between him and the defendants, and to be now owned by him and his late partners jointly. Connected with this claim, however, the plaintiff asks that the defendants be decreed to pay him twotliirds of the original value of this property, on the ground that, as he sold it to the firm at a price which has never been paid him, and which on the dissolution at which most of its concerns were settled was left unarranged, he has an equitable claim…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sigourney v. MunnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1828
- Sigourney v. MunnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829
3Cited by6 opinions
- Johnston v. . TraskNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Fay v. WheelerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1872
- Finlaw v. WertheimNew York Supreme Court · 1936
- De Waal v. JamisonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Emerson v. Associated Gas & Electric Co.New York Supreme Court · 1933
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