Garrett's Adm'x v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Fauquier county, brought in 1866 by Milton Garrett, a resident of Washington city, against Samuel S. Bradford, of Culpeper county, to have a settlement of a partnership account in relation to the grazing and selling sheep.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Fauquier county, brought in 1866 by Milton Garrett, a resident of Washington city, against Samuel S. Bradford, of Culpeper county, to have a settlement of a partnership account in relation to the grazing and selling sheep. By an agreement under seal bearing date the 1st day *of January 1860,' Bradford agreed to sell to Garrett one equal undivided half of eight hundred and twenty-five of his fine wool sheep, to be kept thereafter as a copartnership flock, in the possession and under the control and management of Bradford, so long as it should…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This^ is an appeal from the circuit court of Fauquier. The court is of opinion that the decree of the circuit court, overruling certain exceptions to the commissioner’s report, was an interlocutory decree, “adjudicating the principles of the cause,” from which an appeal might be taken without awaiting a final decree disposing of all the questions involved in the cause. The main subject of controversy between the parties was, whether under their contract the bond of the appellant’s intestate should be credited by one half of the net profits of the partnership in the business of sheep raising;…
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