Peters v. Brookshire

Mr. Judge Brewster,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This is a suit by petitioners, Seab B. Peters and her husband, against respondent, Jeff J. Brookshire, for an accounting and for partition of partnership property. A trial court judgment, unsatisfactory to petitioners, was affirmed by the court of civil appeals. 178 S. W. (2d) 874.

In 1922 respondent and his brother, S. N. Brookshire, formed a partnership “to purchase land, to erect houses thereon, to rent and sell said land and houses, and otherwise engage in business for profit and gain in connection with…