Willis v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. The facts in the case are sufficiently-stated in the opinion of the court. The chancellor dismissed the orator’s bill, from which decree the orator appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Poland, Ch. J.
Abbot & Lindsay were partners in the business of hotel keeping, staging, keeping livery stable, &c., at Lancaster, N. H., from 1850 to 1859.
On the 27th day of September, 1856, they purchased a farm partly in Guildhall, and partly in Lunenburgh, Vermont, for the price of five hundred dollars, and took a conveyance of the same to themselves jointly,, but they were not described in the deed as partners. But from the evidence in the case we are satisfied that the land was paid for with company funds, and was occupied and used for the partnership benefit, so that the same was really…
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