Hedge & Horn's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: In Equity: No. 170, to October and November Term 1869. On the 12th of June 1867 Morgan W. Zollars filed a bill against Shadrach Hedge, Christopher Horn, Caleb H. Zollars, A. H. Deaves and thirty-nine others.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: In Equity: No. 170, to October and November Term 1869. On the 12th of June 1867 Morgan W. Zollars filed a bill against Shadrach Hedge, Christopher Horn, Caleb H. Zollars, A. H. Deaves and thirty-nine others. The bill alleged :— 1. That about April 1865 the plaintiff and defendants formed a voluntary association, called The Keystone Oil Company, to procure land and bore for oil. 2. That the company was composed of 80 shares, the plaintiff owning four shares, C. H. Zollars four shares, Horn and Hedge two shares each, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1870, by
A&new, J. —
This is a bill in equity, setting forth a partnership, or voluntary association, actually formed, for the purpose of procuring land and boring for oil. The plaintiff, as a partner or member of the association, claims an account, and payment by the delinquent members of the sums alleged to be owing to the company. The principal question raised is, therefore, whether the defendants who appealed were members of the partnership, otherwise they are not liable to account under this bill. It is not an action by the association,…
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