Monagas v. Vidal

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment entered by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico for the plaintiff in an action brought for the liquidation of a partnership (sociedad), and for the partition of its properties among the partners or their successors in interest. The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the court below. For present purposes we can summarize them somewhat.

In 1905 Juan A. Monagas, Ramiro Vidal, and Jose Arturo Monagas organized an agricultural partnership called Monagas & Vidal to last for a term of ten years which term they later (April, 1907)…