Wiggin v. Fine
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Dow Cou/ntyy. Action for dissolution of a partnership and an accounting. The cause was tried before McHatton, J., without a jury. Plaintiff had judgment below. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Dow Cou/ntyy. Action for dissolution of a partnership and an accounting. The cause was tried before McHatton, J., without a jury. Plaintiff had judgment below. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. The principal relief sought in the action was an accounting and dissolution of a partnership alleged to have existed be-plaintiff and B. J. Fine, defendant, for the purpose of working, leasing and bonding the Shonbar and Mary Ann mining claims. Plaintiff alleged that, since the commencement of the partnership, defendant had, from…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
The ruling of the district court in admitting certain evidence upon the trial before that court, and to which exception was duly taken, brings up the main point for determination. The plaintiff offered evidence to prove the partnership alleged between himself and the defendant in the Mary Ann and the Shonbar mining ventures. On cross-examination, plaintiff was asked concerning an interest that Hamilton and Lowrey, who were alleged by defendant to be partners in the Shonbar, had in the Shonbar lease, and in the stock of a mining corporation to be formed with the Shonbar claim, as the property…
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