Schneider v. Newmark

Action for dissolution of a partnership, and for an accounting. The trial chancellor dismissed the petition, and plaintiff has appealed. The amount plaintiff seeks to recover in accounting is greatly in excess of $7500.

The case treats with the effect of acts, words and conduct in modifying the contractual relations of two doctors who were, for a time, associated as partners in the practice of medicine and surgery.

Prior to the year 1940, defendant, who was in the general practice of medicine and who did no major surgery, had established a practice at Chester, Illinois. He was acquainted with…