Hughes v. Moore
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jackson Circuit Court, Host. F. M. Black, Judge. The facts sufficiently appear-in the opinion of the court. I. The court erred in overruling appellant’s motion in refusing to take said note into consideration in stating a partnership account between the parties in this suit.— Bindley on Partnership, vol. 2, p. 973. II. Hughes had enjoyed the full benefits of the partnership, though he had not paid the purchase price- of-his interest.
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Appeal from the Jackson Circuit Court, Host. F. M. Black, Judge. The facts sufficiently appear-in the opinion of the court. I. The court erred in overruling appellant’s motion in refusing to take said note into consideration in stating a partnership account between the parties in this suit.— Bindley on Partnership, vol. 2, p. 973. II. Hughes had enjoyed the full benefits of the partnership, though he had not paid the purchase price- of-his interest. It would be inequitable and unjust for him to receive an. equal division-of the surplus in'the hands of - the receiver without having paid to…
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Opinion by
Ellison, J.
On the 15th day of December, 1879, the respondent filed his petition in the special law and equity court of Jackson county, setting forth that he and Thomas B. Scruggs, on the 10th day of May, 1879, became partners in the selling of hardware at Independence, under the name of Scruggs & Hughes; that the concern had become indebted to a large amount; that Scruggs had disappeared and had not returned, and praying for a dissolution of the partnership and the appointment of a receiver to take charge of and dispose of the partnership property and assets.
One J. B. Forbis was on…
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