Tillotson v. Tillotson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity for an account, a discovery, and a settlement of a partnership account; brought to the superior court in Hartford county, and referred to a committee, who made the following report: Prior to the year 1825 there was a partnership in the business of peddling clocks, subsisting between Giles Tillotson, Shubael Tillotson, Oliver Tillotson, and Romania Tillotson, all then of Avon, in this state.
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Bill in equity for an account, a discovery, and a settlement of a partnership account; brought to the superior court in Hartford county, and referred to a committee, who made the following report: Prior to the year 1825 there was a partnership in the business of peddling clocks, subsisting between Giles Tillotson, Shubael Tillotson, Oliver Tillotson, and Romania Tillotson, all then of Avon, in this state. These partners were brothers, and sons of Elias Tillotson*, who died intestate, in the year 1812, leaving a small property, consisting substantially of the farm in Avon, hereinafter referred…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
One of the grounds of remonstrance urged by the petitioners against the acceptance of the report, grows out of the following action of the committee, as stated by them in their report: “ The committee allowed the sum of $3,023.58 for payments made by Romania Tillotson for the support of a minister at New River, Louisiana. There were over one hundred slaves on the plantation, and the committee allowed these payments as a charge on the common *358fund, as well on the ground of its being for the pecuniary interest of the concern in promoting in this way the good moráis and behavior of their…
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