Peters & Reed v. McWilliams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of hustings court of Portsmouth city, rendered February 14, .1881, and on April 26, 1881, in a chancery cause wherein John E. McWilliams and Albert Hobday, administrator of John Hobday, deceased, are plaintiffs, and Wm. H. Peters, Washington Reed and Holt Wilson are defendants, instituted to settle partnership accounts.
1Opinion of the CourtFatjntleroy, J.
Peters and Eeed and Holt Wilson were the owners of a brickyard, where they manufactured and sold, bricks. On the 1st of January, 1860, John E. McWilliams and John. Hobday purchased from them an one-fourth interest in said brickyard and business, and were admitted, to that extent, as partners in the concern, under the style of ‘‘ The Cedar Grove Brick Manufacturing Company.” The said Holt Wilson was chosen as treasurer of the company, and he kept most of the accounts. The business was continued until Norfolk was evacuated in May, 1862, when all abandoned the brickyard and the business, the…
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