Rowland v. Hobby
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John T. Rowland, from a judgment of. the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered - in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 26th day of November, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Queens County ¡Special Term dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff and David R. Hobby, deceased (of whose personal estate the defendant is administratrix), entered into a copartnership agreement for the building of a sea wall at Hoffman’s Island', each party to be equally interested in the profits and losses of. the enterprise; that they entered upon the work, and continued it until Hobby’s death ; that thereafter the plaintiff completed the wall, which resulted in a loss of $1,780.10. The plaintiff demands judgment for an accounting and payment of onelialf of the loss:
The defendant denies knowledge of…
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