Mead v. Curry

This is a suit brought by one partner against another, to recover from the latter the amount of funds alleged to have been advanced to him by the former, for the purpose of carrying on a trading adventure in the Spanish country, adjacent to the limits of the state of Louisiana; and also to recover one half of the gains or profits made by the traffic, which was conducted by the defendant. The petitioner states a sum, certain both in relation to the amount advanced and one half of the profits arising from the adventure, and prays judgment for both these sums. The defend*281ant, in answering, denies…