Stevenson v. Mathers

This was a bill in chancery, filed by plaintiff in error, and Thomas J. Buntain, in the Douglas circuit court, against defendant in error, for the purpose of obtaining a settlement of partnership accounts, and a partition of certain real estate. An amended bill was filed on the 5th of August, 1857, in which complainant Stevenson alleges, that he and some sixteen other persons entered into articles of association and formed a partnership in buying and selling real estate, under the firm name of the “ Central Illinois Land Company.” It was provided that there should be no more than twenty…