Gandolfo v. . Appleton
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the first judicial district,- affirming a judgment on the report of a referee upon a partnership accounting, in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, for the sum of $11,293.49, entered on the 9th June, 1862. On the 1st September, 1848, the plaintiff formed a partnership with the defendant in New Orleans, in the general commission business, under the name of J ames Gandolfo & Co. The business was continued until the summer…
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Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the first judicial district,- affirming a judgment on the report of a referee upon a partnership accounting, in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, for the sum of $11,293.49, entered on the 9th June, 1862. On the 1st September, 1848, the plaintiff formed a partnership with the defendant in New Orleans, in the general commission business, under the name of J ames Gandolfo & Co. The business was continued until the summer of 1851, the firm having in the meantime acquired an interest in a sugar refinery. The partnership was dissolved in…
1Opinion of the Court
Hunt, Ch. J.
This court is an unsuitable tribunal for the examination of complicated accounts. Fortunately that duty is not entrusted to it. We look into the accounts so far only as to see whether, upon admitted facts, an error of law has been committed. We do not criticise witnesses, weigh or balance evidence. This duty is discharged by the referee and the General Term, and where they agree, as in the present case, we accept their conclusions of fact without examination.
I. shall not investigate the long accounts now before us, but confine my examination to two points, in which the appellant…
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