Brownell v. Steere

In January, 1877, appellant bought at sheriff’s sale the stock of boots and shoes previously belonging to O. Bugg, for whom John P, McLean, a son-in-law of appellee, had been salesman and clerk for sixteen years. Largely if not solely with the view of obtaining continued employment for McLean, appellee arranged with appellant to furnish half the price and become an equal partner with him. They had long been intimate friends; each had been a successful merchant and had handled boots and shoes as part of a general stock, but neither had any experiencé in that trade exclusively. There was no…