Luke v. Burgess

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

Appellant instituted tbis common law action to recover of appellee $3,000.00 alleged to be one-balf of the reasonable value of work and labor performed by him in excess of like services performed by appellee in the prosecution of their partnership farming operations from March 1, 1918 to March 1, 1922. He alleged that under the partnership agreement each was to furnish an equal portion of the labor and services necessary to carry on the partnership business, and that thereafter appellee’s health failed and he was unable to perform his half of the…