Demmert v. Demmert

FOLTA, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks an accounting and to compel the defendant to pay him $35,-612.12, which he alleges is due him in the distribution of the proceeds from the sale of the business and assets of the Demmert Packing Company, which he alleges was a partnership consisting of himself, the defendant and the defendant’s wife. The defense - is that the plaintiff was not a member of the partnership.

Perhaps the controversy may be better understood if it is borne in mind that the plaintiff and the defendant are half-brothers of the Indian race, of the ages of 70 and 73 years…