Gray v. Hamil
Supreme Court of Georgia
Partnership. Contracts. Consideration. Before Judge Port. Sumter superior court. November adjourned term, 1888. The bill of WVC. Gray, administrator of J. R. Hamil, charged as follows: For several years prior to and until 1884 and during a part of that year, said J. R. was in partnership with A. J. Hamil, carrying on a general mercantile business, a lime business, and a business in making brick and building houses for themselves and others; they being equal partners.
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Partnership. Contracts. Consideration. Before Judge Port. Sumter superior court. November adjourned term, 1888. The bill of WVC. Gray, administrator of J. R. Hamil, charged as follows: For several years prior to and until 1884 and during a part of that year, said J. R. was in partnership with A. J. Hamil, carrying on a general mercantile business, a lime business, and a business in making brick and building houses for themselves and others; they being equal partners. As part of the partnership business, they built four certain storehouses, and accumulated several thousand dollars worth of…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
As to matters of practice, taking the whole record together, with the explanations given therein by the presiding judge, we are unable to discover any error; and as to the merits, we think there was evidence which justified the jury in arriving at .a conclusion different from that which the auditor reached. This leaves, as the controlling question of the whole case, one matter of law only, viz. whether, under the facts proved, an agreement was obligatory, made by one of the partners, J. R. Hamil, to allow the other, A. J. Hamil, a fixed compensation, to wit, $80 per…
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