Edson v. Gates

The questions raised in this case must be determined principally on a construction of the written agreements in the light of what preceded and what was done under them. The referee found that in the summer of 1876 the assignees of the plaintiffs, Amos and Gilbert Johnson, were copartners under the firm name of Johnson Bros.; that defendants were partners under the firm name of Gates & Fay; that in the summer of 1876 these two firms agreed to purchase a certain lot of pine lands then owned by Evans, Kilmaster & Co., and that Gates & Fay should negotiate such purchase ; that, in the event of…